This is a reposting, on this blog, of the complete content of a 5/2/11 AZBlogX posting “Stanley Stellar’s couch”, original link:
The 2011 posting includes a link (still valid) to Stellar’s own website, which is packed with wonderful content and kept up to date, and even includes his gmail address, so that he can make himself available to men interested in being photographed by him.
Today’s blast from the past is relevant to the current moment: the 2024 edition of the international art show Frieze New York (May 1-5, 2024) included 15 historic photographs by Stellar reproduced for the first time in color. As reported in the 5/4 New York Times:
Titled “The Piers: In Color,” the queer-centered TriBeCa gallery Kapp Kapp presented Stellar’s Kodachrome vision of New York City’s west side piers of the late 70s through 80s, a pre-AIDS paradise mostly remembered in black and white. Stellar’s color photographs recall a vibrancy and texture often omitted from visual history.
More Stellar in a posting to come. In this one it’s just the couch.
In the past few years, male photographer Stanley Stellar has been doing a series of solo shots of men on a very plain gray couch, all communicating exertion or tension. Four examples here:
(#1) None of the models is at rest, but Gonzalo here is especially far from at ease
(#2) The most playful of the set
(#3) Sprawl, take 1
(#4) Sprawl, take 2, even more extended
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