Fashion designer Michael Fish shows his collection of Men’s Wear for 1969 featuring satin robes, jump suits, caftans and tunics.
Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Crass vs. Class
Monday, February 21st, 2011 by admin
Continuing my quest to find beauty in raunchy vintage gay porn, I wanted to make a small point about Crass vs. Class. The first image is a scan of a whole page from a vintage gay porn magazine called “Slick Cocks”. It’s from the mid-1970’s when porn first started to get more intimate and models could actually touch each others penis and put it in their mouths.
The whole magazine had odd little erotic phrases added to the margins. Why did they do that? It’s hard to tell, but you’ve got to realize this was a time of pure experimentation. They were still trying to figure out what worked and what didn’t in the manufacturing of gay porn. Phrases like, “Takin’ on every horny stud in the whole fuckin’ place!” probably sounded cheesy even when they wrote it. Today, we would call that “key words” and they’d be integrated into the search engine optimization mechanics of a web site. But the producers must have thought the addition of those colloquial, obscenity-laden headlines might possibly make the product even more sexy than just showing pretty pictures.
But is it more sexy? We can laugh about the naivety of it now, but the crassness was probably acknowledged right from the beginning. However, isn’t the presentation of the second photo so much more classy in comparison? A simple sepia toned shot cropped and framed to show two guys randomly grabbing each other by the dick. Perfect.
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Something Beautiful
Saturday, February 19th, 2011 by admin
There is something beautiful about these poses. We dismiss gay porn as trash, dirty, amateurish, exploitative or at best “disposable”. Even porn fans themselves (especially porn fans) get so wrapped up in the erotica of porn and the need to get off quickly, that they don’t often really look at a photo to appreciate it. Somebody took the time to get those models together, set it up, photograph it, print it, and distribute it. And if you’re going to go through all that trouble, you might as well spend a little extra effort and money to hire the most attractive models of the moment in time. And in the case of vintage gay porn, all that process was done on the sly to avoid legal hassles. And still, porn is not given the credit it deserves as part of the arts community.
These particular shots were not just randomly chosen. I spent time selecting a couple a the best shots from a gallery I just put in the VIP Room of a magazine, “Slick Cocks”. At first glance, that particular magazine seemed run-of-the-mill and un-interesting, but then I switched my thought process from sexual aspect to looking at more abstract aspects of them. Guess what- they’re beautiful.
Why is the first on sepia toned? I don’t know, but it looks better that way. In the second one, forget for a moment that one guy has his tongue up the other guy’s rectum. It’s otherwise well-framed, in sharp focus, properly lighted and capturing a “moment”. The position of the guy on the couch shows so much expression on his face, not to mention him being such a genetically perfect specimen. While I am typing this, the positioning of just his lower leg and calf muscles has me mesmerized.
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XXX Vintage Gay Comics
Saturday, October 16th, 2010 by admin
Believe it or not, there is more gay erotica comics beyond Tom of Finland. Publishing artwork of erotic cartoon art has been a staple of gay porn magazines from Day One, though most are not a household name like Tom of Finland.
Even though it seems like everything you could do in erotica has already been filmed with live actors, the twisted minds of erotic artists can still go far beyond what is possible in the real world.
Many of the magazines I scan have awesome galleries devoted to erotic art interspersed with photo sets. As I get more and more content in the VIP Room, I am considering creating galleries with nothing but erotic art. Would you like to see that? Please add your Comments.
Openly Gay Couples in the Vintage Porn Age
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 by admin
Most of the vintage porn I provide at Vintage Bareback was produced underground, in secret, and sold to closeted gay men. Here is a shot of two gay pioneers, Allen Ginsberg and his long time lover Peter Orlovsky. They were an openly gay couple from 1954 until they died.
Most of us only know of Ginsberg from his later years as an eccentric old man. Cute young hipster boys think they will always have 30″ waists and fashionable hairdos. Forever. But will they have books that will last forever?
Gaze at the beauty of those youngsters above, they could be any Mission District kid in skinny jeans and white framed sunglasses. And remember, beauty doesn’t last. Find something that will.
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (pronounced /???nzb?r?/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. In the 1950s, Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat Generation, an anarchic group of young men and women who combined poetry, song, sex, wine and illicit drugs with passionate political ideas that championed personal freedoms.[1] Major literary works of the Beat Generation include the novels On The Road by Jack Kerouac and Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, as well as Ginsberg’s epic poem Howl, in which he celebrates his fellow “angelheaded hipsters” and excoriates what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States.
In 1954, in San Francisco, Ginsberg met Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), with whom he fell in love and who remained his life-long partner.
James Bidgood Interview
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 by adminThis is a 2007 interview with the director of Pink Narcissus.
Pink Narcissus
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 by adminPink Narcissus is a 1971 drama film by James Bidgood visualizing the erotic fantasies of a gay male prostitute.
Between visits from his keeper, or john, a handsome male prostitute (Bobby Kendall), alone in his apartment, lounges, fantasizing about worlds where he is the central character. For example, he pictures himself as a matador, a Roman slave boy and the emperor who condemns him, and the keeper of a male harem for whom another male performs a belly dance.
The movie is mostly shot on 8 mm film with bright, otherworldly lighting. Aside from its last, climactic scene, which was shot in a downtown Manhattan loft, it was produced in its entirety (including outdoor scenes) in Bidgood’s small New York apartment over a seven year (from 1963 to 1970) period and ultimately released without the director’s consent who therefore had himself credited as Anonymous.
It was not widely known who had created the movie, and there were rumors that Andy Warhol was behind it. In the mid-1990s, writer Bruce Benderson, who was obsessed with the film, began a search for its maker based on several leads and finally verified that it was James Bidgood, who was still living in Manhattan and was working on a film script. In 1999, a book researched and written by Benderson was published by Taschen about Bidgood’s body of photographic and filmic work.
Bidgood’s unmistakable kitschy style has later been imitated and refined by artists such as Pierre et Gilles.
