David Hurles received a lifetime achievement award at the Tom of Finland queer art Fetival in october 2016.
This book, put together by that other great visual art queer cult legend Rex, portrays this living-on-the-edge pioneer
as he photographs and has sex with the most dangerous gang boys, hustlers, addicts, of NYC in she sixties and seventies.
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Speeding: The Old Reliable Photos of David Hurles Hardcover – November 18, 2005
by
David Hurles
(Photographer),
Rex
(Introduction)
For over 40 years, David Hurles documented the hidden world of rough trade and rent boys posing, masturbating, wrestling, or boxing. His models ranged from drifters and grifters to hustlers and ex-cons men who came to Los Angeles, and Hurles’s studio, to make it big but mostly landed in Hollywood’s gutter. His photographs were ubiquitous fixtures in gay publications throughout the seventies and eighties and continue to enjoy a strong following today. More Weegee than Weber, these images vibrate with youthful male power and edgy sexuality. Chosen from Hurles's vast archive by noted homoerotic artist Rex, they comprise an amazing photographic history of a sexuality that society has rarely acknowledged.
- Print length156 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGreen Candy Press
- Publication dateNovember 18, 2005
- Dimensions9.5 x 1 x 11.5 inches
- ISBN-101931160406
- ISBN-13978-1931160407
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- Publisher : Green Candy Press; First Edition (November 18, 2005)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 156 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1931160406
- ISBN-13 : 978-1931160407
- Item Weight : 2.69 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.5 x 1 x 11.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,981,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #285 in Nude Photography
- #2,100 in Portrait Photography
- #3,572 in Erotic Photography (Books)
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Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2021
There is only one David Hurles
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2011
David Hurles photos collected here may one day be viewed as the last great expression of homoerotic Rough Trade in America. Situated mostly in the 1970s through 80s, these photos represent the author's and others' fascination with the world of hard-edged, hard-bodied working class and mostly -- though not exclusively -- white men on the fringes of society. The harsh realities of these men's lives can been seen in the details of these pictures: prison-made tattoos, young men with prematurely aged faces, bodies whose lean hardness was produced by hard physical work rather than by working out.
This now lost world of hard-edged same-sex male eroticism and sociability was swept away by a New World of "gay" men in which picture-perfect air-brushed Abercrombie and Fitch chiseled physiques are the standard of male beauty, female-identified "gay" men take characters from chick-flics like "Desperate Housewives" and "Sex in the City" as their as their role-models, and in which the professional white upper-middle classes who hi-jacked direction of activism around issues of same-sex desire quashed post-Stone Wall radical sexual politics in favor of "gay" marriage. The kinds of men photographed here would probably have the cops called on them by patrons of the Castro in San Francisco, Chelsea in New York or any other chic "gay" district in any big American city were they to think about frequenting such places today; which of course they would not. Hurles photos will remain as a testament and homage to a vanished world of same-sex male eroticism whose echoes are the parodies of masculinity and virility found in various fetish-scenes in the contemporary Brave New World of "gay" male culture. They are an invaluable historical document.
This now lost world of hard-edged same-sex male eroticism and sociability was swept away by a New World of "gay" men in which picture-perfect air-brushed Abercrombie and Fitch chiseled physiques are the standard of male beauty, female-identified "gay" men take characters from chick-flics like "Desperate Housewives" and "Sex in the City" as their as their role-models, and in which the professional white upper-middle classes who hi-jacked direction of activism around issues of same-sex desire quashed post-Stone Wall radical sexual politics in favor of "gay" marriage. The kinds of men photographed here would probably have the cops called on them by patrons of the Castro in San Francisco, Chelsea in New York or any other chic "gay" district in any big American city were they to think about frequenting such places today; which of course they would not. Hurles photos will remain as a testament and homage to a vanished world of same-sex male eroticism whose echoes are the parodies of masculinity and virility found in various fetish-scenes in the contemporary Brave New World of "gay" male culture. They are an invaluable historical document.
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2013
Great volume showing a very specific slice of male nude depiction. When men could sweat smoke and be as natural as the person commanding the camera would allow. Defiantly masculine and a side of the male image I fear lost to teenyboppers and religious right.
Must have volume for anyone interested in male modern depiction
Must have volume for anyone interested in male modern depiction
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2021
Old Reliable was basically the second wave of male photography (with Bob Mizer's American Model Guild being the first wave).
Gritty, tattooed, muscular, and usually straight, the models projected a sultry masculinity. The videos of the models posing, or wrestling, were legendary.
The quality of the printing is great, and the text describing the rise and fall of David Hurles is both well-written and fascinating. (Old Reliable was finally killed by the Internet.)
Gritty, tattooed, muscular, and usually straight, the models projected a sultry masculinity. The videos of the models posing, or wrestling, were legendary.
The quality of the printing is great, and the text describing the rise and fall of David Hurles is both well-written and fascinating. (Old Reliable was finally killed by the Internet.)
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2018
REX ROCKS
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2013
From what I have read, Old Reliable Studios took photos of naked guys, who lived hard lives and were sort of down on their luck. This book contains pictures of those men. To me the pictures are more blunt, in your face. Some of the guys are flipping the middle finger as their bare their balls to the camera. There are no twinks in this bunch. The photos capture the men as they are - no coyness in the photos at all. Erections are displayed unapologetically. They look like guys who needed the money for dropping their drawers.
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2016
It's ok, but not what I was expecting- I didn't see a copy before ordering. I just didn't find a lot of the guys as stimulating as I was expecting.
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