The thing he loves
Exterface
Photo Book, Pages: 80, Size: 23,5 x 17,5 cm / 9.25 x 6.9 inch, Format: Softcover, Colour: full colour, ISBN 978-3-86787-012-2, October 2008, $ 19.95
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Male longing melted into poetic pictures.
Inspired by advertising, by desire and by life itself, Exterface is a pair of artists who create sexually charged frescos—homoerotic, rife with discrepancies. Plush, poetic and pornographic - all adjectives describing Fassbinder’s legendary homoerotic classic Querelle Exterface’s work brings to mind. Intoxicatingly heady scenes, fascinating in their complexity, are bathed in sultry colors, so superlative in their execution, it’s impossible to imagine them more vivid. A first on the European photo book market. With Exterface’s first work of photography, The Thing He Loves, it is not the individual images themselves that will impress you most, but rather the intelligent way the photographs are composed into series. The images may appear at times unreal and artificial; however, they speak to our innermost desires. The models present themselves as in a peepshow, are close and yet at the same time vulnerable, just out of reach, making for surprisingly sensual photography.
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"The creative duo behind Exterface call their photographs a combination of beauty and indecency ... with a little inspiration from Bruce Weber thrown in." Albert Smith / advocate.com
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Stephan Niederwieser is author of more than twenty books - novels, short stories and erotic guides. After working for different German publishing companies, he is now the new Head of the photobook department at Bruno Gmünder Publishing.
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