MEN OF ITALY

This Coffee-Table-Book from Italian publishing house, Babilonia, features portraits of nude and semi-nude young men in romantic, rural setting. It is a collection of wistful photographs of young Italian men revelling in, and shading from, the heat of the Mediterranean sun. Evocative rather than explicit, the pictures of these beautiful amateur models capture personal moments ofslightly embarrassed exhibitionism and delightfully unselfconcious expressions of joy. Many of the subjects are friends of the photographer, and it is this warmth, the mix of friendship, of feelings, of surroundings, of youth and of sunshine on warm skin, that holds your interest and keeps you flicking back and forth.