Product Description

This is the pocketbook release of this successful 2005 title - a monument of 112 pages solely dedicated to meat, arousing portraits and close-ups of a gay man's best friend. In colour and black-and-white, uncomplicated, untamed and direct. Giovanni pays forthright homage to the male member in surprisingly multifaceted ways - whether cut or uncut, shaved or hairy, fl accid or erect...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30409 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-30
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
Giovanni, pseudonym for a well-known photographer, works in the fashion industry and has been photographing male nudes for several years now with great success. Most of us would recognise his works without realising it stems from his lens.

Customer Reviews

Manou
This small format book is an excellent work. The photographer, who normally makes his living shooting fashion in Europe and the US, was frustrated with the focus on quick, relatively thoughtless production values in fashion photography. He decided to create a body of work that allowed him to explore his creativity, while taking the time to photograph his subjects in a manner that would be uneconomic in his usual work. He was also looking to focus on the homoerotic. He began to photograph models in the nude, focusing in various respects on their bodies and in particular their "bites" (French slang that roughly translates to "dick"), but without showing their faces. This book displays the best of the works of his project. The subjects are beautiful; most are muscular and the photography really shows off their assets. They are shown in a variety of settings -- on beds, in the shower, otherwise fully clothed but with their "bites" exposed, laying about -- but always artfully. That the photographer has chosen to show his subjects bodies without their faces creates an air of erotic mystery. Although I highly recommend this work, you should be cautioned that it is not necessarily a coffee table art book for every avant guarde home. Here, art borders on pornography. The final shot, in fact, shows a torso covered in semen. But if you enjoy that genre, you will love this book.

Bravo to Courage!
Giovanni deserves accolades for taking on a book subject that has been neglected since Grecian times - the male phallus! While multiple photographers have approached the male nude with complete success and have included full frontal nudity, Giovanni makes the focal point of each of his photographs the phallus itself. He is more successful in his black and white photographs where he can heighten the lighting effects and the mystery of his subject. When he includes a bit of clothing or drapery, the result is all the more effective. His color photographs appear a bit mundane and graphic as opposed to sensual.

For this reviewer the cover photograph for the book (two nude males facing each other, 'crossing swords' as it were) is detrimental to the content. For one, the image does not appear on this site. And for another, for people who fear guilt by association, picking up this frank photo on the cover will probably not support sales. And that is unfortunate, because what Giovanni has accomplished is a brave step in the right direction of replacing the maleness back into art! Grady Harp, August 05

MEN AND THEIR GLORY
BITES is a beautiful photographic essay of the (...). Giovanni compiles a collection of photos which honors the glory of that particular portion of the male anatomy. They are all different, and the unique quality of each makes each "masterpiece" unto itself. Like fingerprints, (...) is unique to its owner, which therefore might give credence to the mantra, "So many men, so little time."