“My aim is not to look for beautiful men to shoot, but to shoot the beauty and even more important the uniqueness in the men I work with,” photographer Robert Siegelman tells Queerty. “The men need not be beautiful in any conventional way, but I would like the pictures to have a beauty and, even more important, to have meaning.”
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Siegelman, who lives and works in Boston, has shown his work in museums and galleries around the world, including at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, The Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago and “untitled mail id” at the Angus-Hughes Gallery in London.
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“My work can certainly be provocative, and I like that,” he explains. “It is also quite intimate, and sometimes explicitly sexual. I want to be able to touch people on various levels, and hope that my work may play a part in how we look at sex and sexuality.”
Scroll down for a taste of Siegelman’s portraits, and see more of his work on his Tumblr page…
Billy Budd
This is really nice. It doesn’t make me want to masturbate, but it makes me feel good.
Roan
Is that Jake Cruise in the header photo? Please tell me that’s not Jake Cruise. Ugh.
jppatrick59
Bravo photographer Robert Siegelman! Goal accomplished. It’s amazing to have an opportunity to enjoy the beauty and sensuality of the male form that is simply honest and unenhanced.
Boricuaex
Very moving portraits.
silveroracle
Last picture is really beautiful.
barkomatic
The standard of male beauty in the gay community is getting unrealistically high so it’s nice to have photos like this. Some of these guys would have been considered really good looking 15 years ago but are now considered “every day”.
underboy
@barkomatic: everyone always thinks things were better in times gone by. BS. men complained about the “unrealistically high” physical beauty standards in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s as well… and probably forever.
throwslikeagirl
Lovely. This isn’t about exceptional beauty. It’s about the beauty in exceptional humanity.
yinyangtiger62
I like that the photos are not of conventional beauty but am very curious if plus size guys are also included, the ones that you see everyday.
yaletownman
Actually the guy lounging in front of the mirror in the second picture is just my type. I love a guy with a lean, not skinny, toned body. I wish I could see the rest of him!