The Gay Male Gaze and the Male Body on Homoerotic Photography

Abstract

Typically, women have been the object of the erotic photography, aimed to a heterosexual male public, however, on gay homoerotic photography, both the target audience and the photographed subject, are homosexual men. The first section of this article addresses the nude in art; the following, deals with homoerotic photography, while the last section analyzes the gay male gaze and the way the male body is shaped and represented on homoerotic photography.