2005-01-31 Yet another triumpg from Bel Ami and Brun GMuender

Firstly, let me deal with the quality of the book. Like all Bruno GMunder books this is printed on very high quality paper, in good rigid covers, and is quite sumptuous. Especially at this price!.

Then the boys! Where can one start? There must be a Johann Paulik of the future within these covers. The quality of the imagary, the poses, the lighting, the sets and the boys are quite, quite stupendous.

If you're after hairy muscle hunks this book will not be your cup of tea. If your taste is more towards the gym-toned (yet not over-developed) younger, smoother kind of man/boy, then you'll be in 7th heaven with this book.

The slightly hazy, misty kind of photography and the lighting bear a resemblance to the work of David Hamilton, albeit that he photographed young girls and women rather than boys and men. Nonetheless, I am struck by the slightly ethereal 'other-worldly' nature of Bel Ami's work.

Well worth adding to your collection.