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Fred Goudon Photography
With a touch of French esprit and an assured sense of style, photographer Fred Goudon grants us a glimpse into the private moments in the lives of his models. Virility is Goudon's most recent work and is the masterful continuation of his successful photobook series Sunday Morning and Aqua.
Virility: Fred Goudon
Virility: Fred Goudon
In the locker room, together hitting the showers, in the pool, napping on the couch while a lover is standing on the balcony, looking out across the city, with only a towel around his waist. Goudon’s portraits are much more erotic than they are sexual. Intimacy without a trace of romantic kitsch.

Unlike the typical posing most people expect from nudes and studio photography, Goudon’s models are completely at ease and natural. The power of Goudon’s photography lies in the voyeuristic pleasure — and in so doing, is worlds away from typical everyday one-dimensional pornography. His sophisticated concept of color and black-and-white accentuates the sensual aesthetics of seduction.
Virility: Fred Goudon
As Dante, the hot guy living in the beach house next door to Samantha Jones in the Sex and the City movie, French model and actor Gilles Marini earned international recognition. Amazing photographs of him can be found in his good friend Fred Goudon's book Virility.
Gilles Marini
Gilles Marini explains how he got prepared for his famous shower scene:

I wanted to try to do something in the modeling industry. I knew that for me to work as a model, I needed pictures by a top photographer and Fred is on top of that list. We did the shower shoot a couple of times. I needed to be ready and comfortable before playing the shower scene in Sex and the City. We talked about it with Fred and this shower picture was kind of a rehearsal before shooting the film. When I got to the set of Sex and the City, I had to get naked and play my scene in front of dozens of people. Thanks to Fred, I knew what to do; so in the movie it looks a bit like what Fred created.
Gilles Marini
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Virility: Fred Goudon Virility: Fred Goudon
In his fourth photobook, Fred Goudon focuses on twenty-something models. In the midst of staged styled shoots, Goudon shows everyday scenes of guys dressed in only a towel, enjoying the vista of Saint Tropez, or a cheerful scene of two friends laughing. The impressive 180 pages of large-format photographs will tempt the observer to sit back and relax with a bottle of fine French wine and their own personal copy of Virility.
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Virility: Fred Goudon
Virility: Fred Goudon
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Aqua: Fred Goudon Aqua: Fred Goudon
La dolce vita awaits your discovery in this fascinating collection. Beautiful young men full of untamed energy celebrate their lust for life. Alone or in pairs they dive into a sea of sensuality. Goudon is a master of light and shadow, his images show a surprising interplay of masculine forms and movement. Refreshing as summer rain!
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Aqua: Fred Goudon
Aqua: Fred Goudon
Sunday Morning: Fred Goudon Sunday Morning: Fred Goudon
The book for the weekend! With French flair and a sure sense of composition style, photographer Fred Goudon gives us a look into the beds of strangers. The artist wraps his stubbly, muscled men in soft colours and gentle contrasts. His portraits are less sexual than they are highly erotic. The soft lighting creates fascinating physical landscapes in the sheets - atmospheric photographs from one of the greatest contemporary French photographers that will make you melt!
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Sunday Morning: Fred Goudon
Bedtime Stories: Fred Goudon Bedtime Stories: Fred Goudon
Fred Goudon's photography book is a stunning display of very attractive, relaxed sensual male nude models photographed in black and white. A lot of the models are photographed lying in bed alone, or in couples, and getting ready for bed, etc, thus establishing the theme of the book. Fred has a way of presenting his male models in a moody, relaxed way. These guys are not your standard run of the mill very posed male models.
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Bedtime Stories: Fred Goudon
Bedtime Stories: Fred Goudon
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Provocateur Bedtime Stories 2009 Calendar Provocateur Bedtime Stories 2009 Calendar
Linens cascade over the masculine flesh of these gorgeous male models. You’ll think you are dreaming as one striking image after the next captures those moments we wish would last forever. Fred Goudon’s Bedtime Stories will become the best part of waking up.
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Provocateur Bedtime Stories 2009 Calendar
Magnifique 2009 Calendar Magnifique 2009 Calendar
Experience the seductive magic of sand, surf and skin. French photographer Fred Goudon brings the thrill and exhilaration of an exotic tropical island vacation into your home with this collection of some of the sexiest international models ever compiled. From the beaches to the boudoirs and back again, this calendar is simply Magnifique!
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Noah's Arc
Noah's Arc is back, and you're invited to the big wedding! But can Noah and Wade really pull it off? Will Ricky's sexcapades get the better of him? Can Chance and Eddie stay together? And can Alex stay sane? Get set for a wild wedding weekend of love, laughs, sex and some serious drama.
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
Noah's Arc
Howard Roffman Photography
Howard Roffman is fully committed to the representation of young men and their lives in his work. Like no other he manages to capture images of his boys, their passions and their search for tenderness behind the pose. Sensitively and respectfully he documents their awakening sexuality.
Howard Roffman Photography
Christopher and the Boys: Howard Roffman
The Nude Black Male
Portraying the nude black male can be especially fraught with difficulties. How does the photographer capture images free from the denigrating prejudices and stereotypes so often encountered in photographs of nude black males?
The Nude Black Male
The Nude Black Male
Gods of Sport: Pedro Virgil
Photographer Pedro Virgil takes you on an intimate journey behind-the-scenes giving you candid glimpses of sportsmen as they bare their muscular physiques chiseled by combat on the field, and relax, often nude in front of the camera in a highly-charged interpretation of the naked spirit of masculinity.
Gods of Sport
Gods of Sport: Pedro Virgil
So Sexy It Hurts: Patrick Mettraux
Discover a photographer who celebrates the beauty of urban youth. Wild or tender, he presents now his breathtaking work centred on a world where fashion meets erotic. Brought together for the first time, his pictures reflect the complex versatility of his sense of aesthetic.
Patrick Mettraux: So Sexy It Hurts
So Sexy It Hurts: Patrick Mettraux





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