MOUNTAIN MEN

MOUNTAIN MEN
The Male Photography of Don Whitman
Introduced by David Chapman

Out of the American West comes an ideal of male beauty to match the rugged grandeur of the Rocky Mountains where attractive athletic bodybuilding guys pose nude in the open air, high up on rocky ridges overlooking pine-clad slopes - hanging onto high tension wires or basking against craggy banks.

Don Whitman of Western Photography Guild takes the art of plein air photography to dizzy heights with this retrospective collection dating from the late 40s to the early 60s - the golden age of bodybuilding.

The body shape was what millions of young males longed for and were secretly turned-on by the masturbation fantasy of the 50's.

"the rugged Western youth who leaves his citified ways, his inhibitions, and his Levis elsewhere. He becomes a naked cowboy enjoying his freedom." - David Chapman

96 pages, 25.5 x 22.8 cm, 8 colour, 72 B&W photographs, paperback.