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Photographer Unknown, (Sport of Kings)
“Falstaff: […] Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh—but that’s no marvel; he drinks no wine. There’s never none of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood”
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two
Photographer Unknown, (Massive T-Shirt)
Photographer Unknown, (Woodland Spirit)
Photographer Unknown, (Holding Onto His Desire)
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Four in the Hot Tub)
Mustafa Sabbagh, “Savages”
Born in Jordan, Amman, of Palestinian-Italian family, Mustafa Sabbagh moved to London where he trained under Richard Avedon as his assistant. He now resides in Ferrara, Italy and travels as a lecturer in photography workshops. Since 2005, his photography has centered on the figurative art with a focus on the skin as a “diary of the uniqueness of the individual”. His photographic scenes are designed to show contemporary allegories similar to the Flemish and Baroque paintings of the masters. According to art historian, Peter Weiermair, Sabbagh is “one of the hundred most influential photographers in the world”.
Photographer Unknown, (The Baring Process)
Photographer Unknown, (Dredlocks and Water)
Photographer Unknown, (Six Arms)
“There’s nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.”
—David Herbert Lawrence
Photographer Unknown, (Bathed in Sunlight)
“The sun,–the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man–burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”
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Photographer Unknown, (A Closer Look)
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
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Photographer Unknown, (The Jock Strap: Fukker)
Photographer Unknown, (Linen Pants)
Photographer Unknown, (Face to Face Meeting)
“He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Railroad Tracks)
“It seems the guys who are best at sex approach it with the serenity of a Buddhist monk. They are never going to beg for it and when the time is right, then they take charge masterfully and completely.”
-Roberto Hogue