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Shooting Male (Hardcover)

~ Eric Schwabel (Author)
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Schwabel - young award-winning talent in the field of fashion and fine art photography - has a sense for subtle, but capturing erotic. Schwabel teaches photography and hates to photoshop his images. That's why his pictures appear so natural in spite of his eye for the glamorous side of things.

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  • Hardcover: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh (June 20, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 3867870187
  • ISBN-13: 978-3867870184
  • Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a photo book worth buying!, August 26, 2009
By Joshua Ballinger (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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Once every decade or so, a new image, or a new series of images, changes the popular conception of the male ideal. Think of the photograph of James Dean leaning against a wall smoking a cigarette in the 1950s, or the Times Square Calvin Klein underwear billboard of the 1980s. Eric Schwabel's Shooting Male may well work a similar shift in the popular imagination.
The male form has been an object of fascination since at least the 5th Century BC, when the ancient Greeks sculpted idealized images of Apollo and Heracles, or memorialized a popular athlete in marble for the ages, and that fascination has never waned. If anything, it has only increased as the ideal has been reimagined by the ancient Romans, the artists of the Renaissance, the social realists of the 20th Century, and the comic-book artists of today. Through it all, there has been one constant, and that is inextricable pairing of strength and sexuality.
Perhaps in no medium has the modern fascination with male strength and sexuality been so overtly celebrated as the photo book, beginning with the 1950s "beefcake" books showing images of body builders in classical poses. But as such photo books have become more mainstream, many photographers have tamed the raw male qualities of strength and sexuality with an overlay of sterility, a trend which reached its apogee in the form of the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue.
In Shooting Male, Schwabel has stripped away this sterility and returned to raw male energy. In place of idealized images of buff boys with the sun gleaming from their pouting lips, here are real men whose sexual power is not merely hinted at, but on the surface. The men are porn stars, escorts, models, and regular guys off the streets--or in the case of Johnny Hazzard depicted on the cover, actually on the streets. And while some of the images are obviously posed (one beautiful shot in particular shows a man, contorted yet comfortable-looking, in front of a backdrop of neon lights) many of them--and the most compelling of them--are not. There is the man walking through a hallway of lockers, the aforementioned Hazzard on the street with this dog, and a series of shots that depict not only the model, but also the elements of the shoot: the boxes on which the model stands, the light-reflecting umbrella, the light meter. These latter shots take rawness to a new level: it is not only the sexual energy of the model that is undisguised, but the means of depicting it as well. Here is a power, a playfulness, and a sexuality that has become too rare in our understanding of maleness. Kudos to Schwabel for bringing it back.
If you buy only one photo book, make it this one.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, June 20, 2009
By Brian L. Laing (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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Eric Schwabel's "Shooting Male" just arrived at my door. I had a million things to do but they all took a back seat to me opening the package, sitting down, and giving it a look. A cursory flip through made me immediately realize that putting those other million things on the back burner was the correct decision. This is an amazing book! Schwabel's appreciation of the male form is apparent in each and every one of these beautifully lit and shot photographs.

Matt York, one of his first models and appropriately the first image you see in the book, gives "Shooting Male" its introduction. York succinctly sums things up by saying that Schwabel "knows exactly the shot he wants and will work at it (sometimes for hours) until he gets it." This attention to detail and craftsmanship shows. In Schwabel's capable hands, the male body IS art.

If you appreciate excellent photography and the male form, "Shooting Male" should be in your book collection - in fact, it's finding a prominent location on my coffee table right now!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A unique photo book by a unique and talented artist!, September 24, 2009
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So, I bought this book a few months ago, and I observed friends (from high profile and celebrities to school teacers) coming at our house being so intrigued by the way Mr. Schwabel sees and captures humans.
So I bought a couple of more books to give as presents. Bingo! Very much appreciated!
I believe this man/artist has a brilliant career and future ahead of him.
I found out he has a web site as well, and I am sure we will contact him in the future for some work request.
In spite of his age, Mr. Schwabel has all the foundations of the "big ones" from the past!
I am so glad I got to buy this book! Highly recommended!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Super sexy- love this book
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