Tainted Tuesday *11

This is an awesome study of the beauty of the teenage male nude, creatively put together with a beautiful and relaxed model, well posed, well lit (ok just a bit of glare), and from a really creative angle.

All the lines of the image draw your eye to the centre and frame the centre: the upper arm and the lower arm lie along, and echo the line of, the torso, hip and thigh, framing the centre; the neck, fine chest and flat-to-hollow teenage abdomen draw the eye to the centre as well, narrowing to the hips in a strong ‘V’; the chin, right arm and thighs add to the framing. In the distance, thighs, knees, and lower legs lie relaxed, ready either to rest here or to roll either way. Here in the foreground the lower arm lies outstretched, ready to greet, and it seems the head is suspended in the air: something is about to happen, and the relaxed impression suggests that it is something calm, peaceful and contented. The hair is great, of course, and the image captures eyebrows, nose, cheek bones, lips, ear and chin-line beautifully, at the apex of neck and right upper arm. One thumb in the black underwear suggests a beautiful dream in the mind of the boy – and there right at the centre, the patch of black frames his beautiful and potent teenage fertility, captured here perfectly and creatively, with both complexity and clarity.

Ah, the male body … beautiful throughout the lifespan … *most* beautiful (and most fertile, of course) in the teenage years.

And the most important, simple fact of all: the boy is beautiful.

Josh/anyone: know any more about this model or this image/photoset?

- Rimmer [ appreciative ;) ]