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On the Couch, Vol. 1 [Hardcover]

Tom Bianchi (Photographer)
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March 2002
The Newest Collection of Steamy Photos From One of the Hottest Men in the Business; New from the artist and photographer behind In the Studio and Out of the Studio, comes this artful and erotic new collection of nude portraits. The setting is a couch in Tom Bianchi's living room. Upon this couch a number of models take their turn, each engaged in his own form of erotic play - either alone, or with an equally alluring partner. Bianchi's gorgeous compositions evoke both the formal sensuality of his subjects as well as their raw sexual appeal.

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Tom Bianchi has photographed numerous books of gay erotica including In the Studio, Bob & Rod and Men I've Loved (all currently available from Turnaround).

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 104 pages
  • Publisher: Bruno Gmunder (March 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 3861872390
  • ISBN-13: 978-3861872399
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,288,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Tom Bianchi is one of the most published visual artists and writers in the world.

His nineteen books of photographs, poems, and essays primarily cover the gay male experience in a variety of contexts - from aesthetic philosophy - IN DEFENSE OF BEAUTY - to poetry to erotic photography. He is currently working on an album and stage presentation of some poems being set to song from his book MEN I'VE LOVED.

Tom was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. He got a law degree at Northwestern and practiced corporate law for ten years. At thirty -four he left his position as Senior Counsel at Columbia Pictures, tore up his law degree, pasted it into a painting and had his first one man show with Betty Parsons and Carol Dreyfuss in New York. Shortly thereafter, Tom had his first major museum retrospective at the Spoleto Festival in 1984.

In 1990, St. Martins Press published OUT OF THE STUDIO, Tom's groundbreaking book of male nudes, frankly gay and affectionally connected. That book opened a door for more honest visions of gay men and a better understanding of their intimate lives. Thereafter, nineteen of Tom's books have been published, three documentary films about Tom's work have been distributed, and Tom's work has been published in more than thirty anthologies on the male nude. His ON THE COUCH series, DEEP SEX and EROTIC TRIGGERS deal with the expression of conscious sexual energy. This body of work has earned Tom respect as one of the most important artists dealing with erotic imagery and imagination. His body of work is the largest record ever made by a single artist of a culture's intimate life.

Tom also co-founded a biotech company, CytoDyn, developing a new therapy for treatment of HIV / AIDS.

TOMBIANCHI.com is Tom's website that includes detailed information on Tom and his work. Tom writes a blog which is a showcase for new work and the world as he sees it. The posts are fun, witty and sexy. And for people who want to go behind the scenes there is a huge archive of over 20,000 images with weekly updates in the Members Area.

Facebook: TOMBIANCHIFANPAGE - Here you will find updates on Tom's work and includes photo galleries from shoots as well as Tom's travels around the world.

Twitter: Follow Tom @tombianchi

You can reach Tom directly through all the places above if you are interested in being a subject of his books and films or are interested in collecting Tom's work.

 

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Will You Look At These Photos!!!!, September 25, 2002
This review is from: On the Couch, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Photographer Tom Bianchi apparently has the busiest couch on the west coast. He has recorded some of the most beautiful, erotic, and explicit images of mature, handsome and muscular men in these pages. He has been a major player in the world of nude male photography since the early 90's. This book is the first part of his multimedia project, and his first endeavor into digital photography. There are solos, couples, and three-ways displayed in these beautiful color photographs. Bianchi's use of natural light brings out the artistic appeal and beauty of these handsome men. The men in these photos are from all over the world, and they have given of themselves totally in exploring their personal boundaries, exhibitionism, and their masculine beauty. This is a book you can spend hours looking over, and exploring, seeing more and more as you study these photos. It's a nice change of pace from the swimming pools & ocean settings, to come indoors to more intimate surroundings. I think this is Tom Bianchi's finest achievement yet. I certainly look forward to his future volumes. A great collector's item for your library!

Joe Hanssen

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Sumptuous, Well-Produced Book, June 14, 2002
This review is from: On the Couch, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Somewhere, on a high hill in San Francisco, lives a couch whose cushions have cradled some of the most beautiful men in the world. Lucky couch -- and lucky us, because the couch belongs to photographer Tom Bianchi's life partner, B.J.

In this gorgeous collection, published in a handsome volume from Bruno Gmünder, the couch plays backdrop for all of the photographs, and somehow, the conceit never becomes repetitive. In fact, upon gazing at some of the beauties who give their all for Bianchi's lens, some may well ask the question: "What couch?"

Though some of the models are shown wearing clothes, all of them sooner or later get fully (sometimes startlingly) naked. The result is a collection of bare, uninhibited, raw images of masculine power and eroticism. No intimate bit of the models' bodies is left undiscovered by Bianchi's lens. P>Though is may sound as if these are pornographic photos, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, they possess a sweetly erotic quality that would have been impossible in the hands (and eyes) of a less sensitive artist. Bianchi's vision is such that he makes his work sing with a paean to male sexual energy and to the natural beauty of masculine sensuality in all its forms.

Some of the models presented are alone, and some are in pairs, but there is no palpable difference in the heat generated either way. One model says that he meditated to release his inhibitions and increase the sexual energy of his shoot. He apparently was very successful -- his layout is one of the most memorable in the book.

The text accompanying the photos gives some wonderful insight into how the shoots came to be, and into each model's background, which is a wonderful departure from the usual silence that accompanies photo essays. One quibble is that it sometimes does venture into stating the obvious -- as when Bianchi says of one model: "I was sufficiently flattered to nearly get into deep trouble with him."

This is a sumptuous, well-produced book that lovers of Bianchi's work, and lovers of sensual male photography in general, will want to own.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars On The Couch I: Fahrenheit 450!, May 30, 2004
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In Ray Bradbury's science fiction thriller, paper burns at 451 degrees fahrenheit. If that is indeed the case, the temperature of this "thriller" has to be at least 450 degrees. I have never seen a hotter book. Mr. Bianchi says in his introduction that he sees "our sexual energy as a vibrant aspect of our inner Godliness. I wanted to create an erotic record that demonstrates this truth." Be that as it may, he certainly has found some gods for this volume. Beautiful men-- most of them mature-- came to visit Mr. Bianchi's brown couch: from Amsterdam, Atlanta, Australia, Siberia, the Midwest and just across the street.

Mr. Bianchi says that the men here are not professional models. There is certainly a refreshing spontaneity about them, singly and in twosomes and threesomes, as they frolick partially clothed, nearly naked and buck-naked before Mr. Bianchi's camera. (Has anyone gotten more free advertising in the past 20 years than Calvin Klein, thanks to the publication of books and magazines like this one where the hunks often get in and out of underwear that has become known simply as "Calvins?")

These photographs were shot with a digital camera which allowed Bianchi to use natural light, giving these stunning images almost a painterly quality.

This volume is Mr. Binachi's finest work thus far and worth every penny it costs.

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