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Fun ? Game: Male Models Revealed

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Generally, Fun ? Games: Male Models After Dark fall under the category of male nudes, but falls outside the typically used staged shots. While Lalli gave the models the props to work from, it was the young men who chose how to use them, and not that of Lalli. This offers the viewer a different perspective. The vision of being outside the norm is also present in the written text, with the white type on black background. And the Afterword by Paul Cadmus, who himself is outside the norm.

Lalli offers an unique collection of the young and beautiful that represents the youth of today's society. The combination of black & white and color photos in unnumbered hard-cover book offers a view of models expressing themselves, while Lalli photos the moments. Erotic is the first response, but there is a sense of a far deeper feeling to the shots expressed by the males. Individual modesl provide a glimpse into themselves, either how they see themselves or how they want to be seen. A full range of expression is captured in these photos; sadness, tenderness, and anger. They say there is a story behind every photo, and am sure there is some very interesting stories behind these. Personally, look forward to Lalli's next exhibit of photos.

You can't have wine and caviar everyday, and if collecting male erotica could be compared to gastronomy this photographic book would be the equivalent of a box of candy: fun and sweet but hardly wholesome. Book gets 4 stars because it will balance out your collection of more serious and traditional male photobooks and no question that these guys are goodlooking and sexy, but there's alot of overstated machismo too that gets old after a while. Probably the best idea of what you can expect from this book could be found in Brad Gooch's forward to the book. He states that one of Lalli's, (the photographer), cues to the models as he shot them was, "look at me like your gonna kill me." Munch on that one for a bit...

By looking at the book cover, I thought that it would have lots of nude pictures, etc. And from the book title, I assumed this is a picture book about those models having fun after dark. But in reality, it is just a book of different male models in different poses. It only has a few nude pictures. Nothing too exciting, I think.

The photography is well done, the men are very good looking, so what's the problem? They look forced in most shots. Like a gun is to their heads. Some of the men come across as natural, but most do not.

This book is stylishly presented with amazing graphics and beautiful photos. The guiltily sexy pictures of hot Rex models add a sense of uniqueness. I find the use of blood and dirty models to be not offensive, but entirely appealing. This book is reccomended for all who enjoy the beautiful geometry of the human body and the contented irony of the modeling world.

"Fun ? Game: Male Models After Dark is a fascinating blend of the sexual and the silly, the enticing and the amusing: it's a collection of snaps taken by the uni-named fashion photog Lalli while casting for Calvin Klein; the bodies are mostly sheathed in slight briefs or lightly-draped shirts, and it's not a fount of full-frontal. But it is a colorful eyeful of good-looking goofs, a reminder that models have personalities. - review excerpt from RL at A Different Light Books

what a disappointment. mostly cliched and contrived images that lack emotional and visual impact. what should be provocative images come across as awkward and rehearsed. for the real thing, check out testino!

Supposedly the photographer shot these men after they had worked by day as models for fashion ads. They are thus apparently supposed to be being themselves, unposed, etc. If George Bernard Shaw were alive today and saw these boys, I'm not sure that he would say that it's a shame that youth is wasted on young people. With a couple of exceptions there's not a single photograph here that I would even think about purchasing and certainly not hanging on a wall. The lighting is garish, the composition is bad and many of the shots are out of focus. (Deliberately I hope.)

Brad Gooch gushes in his foreward. Yes, the photographs remind you of Larry Clark and Nan Goldin; but these two photographers did it much better and got there first. And how Gooch can call Lalli a "gay Helmut Newton" is beyond me. Paul Cadmus in his afterward makes a lot more sense when he says that these are boys he would not want to know, himself. I couldn't agree more.

To quote a line from Robert Browning, suddenly "I feel chilly and grown old" when I view these photographs.

This photographer has a GREAT EYE and see's things and men in an interesting way .. you'll enjoy it

Good, good... But if you have $30, buy something more... Bad boys , for example.