Jeff Palmer: Touch
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Jeff Palmer: Touch
Can we capture with a camera what we touch with our hands, feel with our skin, experience with our bodies? Answering that question was the challenge pioneering gay photographer Jeff Palmer set himself in Touch, his masterful new collection of black and white male nudes. And the answer, as you'll see in these simply stunning pages, is a resounding yes.
Part of the generation of fearless photographers who first liberated gay imagery and unabashedly celebrated the beauty of the male body, Palmer is one of erotica's premier artists. In Touch, his subjects are all men making contact, with themselves and with each other. With a sense of light and shadow every bit as sculpted as his models' unbelievable bodies, Palmer captures the quiet power of hands against flesh, body against body. Whether locked in a passionate embrace, sharing a peaceful moment or ecstatically exploring themselves, Palmer's subjects are a testament to the magnificence of the male form in all its fully exposed glory, and a celebration of the physical, sexual and emotional connections that only men can make with one another.
Trust us: Once Touch grabs ahold of you, you'll never want it to let go.
Hardcover: 120 pages
Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh ( November 01, 2007 )
Item #: 14-0943
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 10.0 x 0.0 inches
Product Weight: 34.0 ounces
Quiet, Eloquent Sensuality
August 06, 2010
Jeff Palmer is a photographic artist who manages to find in the human form those aspects that are most private and most vulnerable, In this book TOUCH he has created portraits of men alone and men together, never in the throes of passion but instead in the silence of need and tenderness. Each of these beautifully rendered photographs suggests repose, tranquility, absorption in the beauty of the male form appreciating the Grecian grace that comes with health and care of the physique. At times he pairs images of the same model in sleeping form, and in awakening to the realities of and personal pleasures of day, while at other times he concentrates on the form at rest or sleep, in bed with subtle light or in the beauty of nature outdoors.
The images of men together are particularly significant in that they are not in active gratification, but instead in those moments of repose, tenderness and warmth that are the moods here. There are some images that are simply faces where touch is the model's hand supporting his face - the message is in the eyes - while others capture sculptural curves in isolated body parts, alone and shared. TOUCH is an apt title to this sensitive book of photographs of beautifully healthy male models who just happen to be sharing the pleasure of the care of their bodies. This is a sensitive, moody, gentle, respectful praise of the male nude and Jeff Palmer knows how to capture this as well as any artist today. Grady Harp
Reviewer: Grady H
masculine appreciation
July 28, 2008
I love this book. Would really like to know where to find others for gifts to friends. It's sexual and masculine, but not raunchy or taste-less. The images are so real and not posed. I highly recommend!
Reviewer: J H
Erotic and sensual
June 07, 2008
Jeff Palmer depicts male nude body in an artistic yet realistic way.
A must-have tea table book.
Reviewer: Fei J
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