Michael Stokes - Exhibition - 2015

 Michael Stokes - Exhibition - 2015

Author: Michael Stokes
1st Edition sold out
Published by Bruno Gmünder

"Exhibition" a 136-page, hardcover volume, showcases photographer Michael Stokes' penchant for photographing "gay and homoerotic male images and figure studies of fitness competitors, personal trainers, and body builders from around the world."

Michael Stokes

Raised in Berkeley, California, Michael Stokes is now a Los Angeles-based photographer. At age fifteen, Michael dropped out of high school but eventually resumed his education by enrolling in college, graduating first in his class and Phi Beta Kappa with a Fine Art degree from the film department at Cal State University, Long Beach. Before changing his career path to filmmaking, he was a photography major, learning pre-digital photographic techniques, using darkrooms and silver gelatin film. In film school, he wrote and directed a short film, Alien, which was picked up and shown by film festivals around the world. Icon of gay and homoerotic photography.

Michael is known for glamour-styled photos of male fitness models and wounded veterans of war. To date he has published seven coffee table books, all monograms with the exception of one book, My Buddy, a collaboration with the publisher Taschen, featuring his collection of vintage photos of nude WWI and WWII soldiers.

Books to Date
Masculinity, 2012
Bare Strength, 2014
My Buddy, 2014
Always Loyal, 2015
Exhibition, 2015
Invictus, 2016

Adonis Blue, 2016 

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