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| Reference Number: Avaluer:935727 | Topic: Photography: Collections |
| Illustrator: Lionel Wendt | Binding: Hardcover |
| Subject: Art & Photography | Region: Europe |
| Special Attributes: Illustrated | ISBN: Does not apply |
Lionel Wendt - CeylonPhotography of Lionel Wendt (1900 - 1944 ) isbn 9789490119492. Tropical modernism, masterful prints akin to Platt Lynes. Homosexuality, hiding in plain sight. Wendt allowed himself to be inspired by Paul Strand and Edward Weston and the surrealistic experiments of Man RayHis sensual, exotic, homoerotic nudes are particularly astounding. In a time and at a place where homosexuality was not accepted, Wendt had his male subjects (men and boys) pose in naturist en plein air ...landscape or his studio. Traditional Ceylonese loincloths worn by his subjects leave little to the imagination, and the academic poses he asked them to take, he was able to express his homosexuality under the guise of art and ethnography. He also created portraits of the members of the island’s avant garde movement. Wendt played a significant role in the development of modernist painting on Ceylon; he acted as a patron of the arts and his house was a meeting place for the ‘43 Group, the artistic movement that was a predecessor of Ceylonese modernism.Initially, Wendt used a Rolleiflex for his photography, which he quickly replaced by a Leica. From approximately 1933 onwards, he started to print his film in his own darkroom, where he soon showed himself to be a master. He made refined bromide and gelatine silver prints with subtle shades of grey and gradations of black, which gave his nudes and landscapes a velvet-like quality and experimented with techniques such as photogram, photomontage, and double printing. Wendt’s work includes spectacular images of Ceylon: its landscapes, cultural heritage and local population, photographed during everyday activities or traditional rituals.
Wendt's choice of subject was eclectic: from sensual and homoerotic portraits to tropical images of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and from picturesque scenes to compositions for which he used pre- mid century modernist stylistic devices and experimental techniques.
After his premature death in 1944 his negatives were destroyed, but his prints resurfaced in the 1990s, and are now part of several international private and museums collections. Wendt’s work will be exhibited at Documentary 14 in Athens, and a large scale retrospective will take place in the summer of 2017 at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam.
Calafran, Tony Lanza, Third World Studio, Chicago / Jim Jager ( Jaeger Yeager), Sierra Domino / Craig Calvin Anderson, Basil Clavering / Hussar, Foto Grafo FotoGrafo Sweden, Imbert Forlag Naturist Denmark, Mike Arlen Wetherby United Kingdom, Mel Roberts, Neil Edwards, Troy Saxon Stuart Rosenberg, Bobco, Pat Rocco, Cusido, RMX Richard Models Naturism, Vetruvian, Frank Collier Artkraft, Times Square Studio, Mark Lynch, Gerhardt Liebmann, Eadweard Muybridge, Paul Cadmus, Tuke, Luke Smalley, Wouter Deruytter, Gaetano D'Agata, Vincenzo Galdi, Pluschow, John Hernic, George Hoyningen Huene, Rudolph Koppitz, Raymond Voinquel Eakins Sig Siegmund Klein Tolson Mighty Appolon
The Photographers: Anonymous, Paval Antonov, Apollo (Richard Fontaine), Athletic Model Guild (Bob Mizer), John Barrington, David Bartolomi, Tom Bianchi, Andreas H. Bitesnich, Roy Blakey, Jean-Pierre Bonin, Bruce of Los Angeles (Bruce Bellas), Rick Castro, Champion (Walter Kundzicz), Aaron Cobbett, Bill Costa, Robert Cusido, Domenique (William Domenique), Douglas of Detroit (Douglas Juleff), Eleonora Drach, John Falocco, Ferrero of Nice (Jean Ferrero), Jim French, Greg Friedler, Greg Gorman, Lawrence Grecco, Kelly Grider, Ken Haak, Kristen Hallett, Michael Harwood, Tom Holdorf, Adian Jones, Chris Kinser, Kris of Chicago (Chuck Renslow), Terry Lewis, Lon of New York (Lon Hanagan), Mils, Jack Mitchell, Richard Mitchell, George Mott, Plato (George Haimsohn), George Platt Lynes, Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, Scott of London (Tom Nicholls), Skrebneski, Ira C. Smith, Stanley Stellar, Richard Taddei, Arthur Tress, Al Urban, , Igor Vishnyakov, Vulcan (Anthony Guyther), Western Photography Guild (Don Whitman), Avery Willard, Marc Yankus, Joe Ziolkowski. The Muses (the photographed): Neel Bate, Joe cali, John Converse, Joe Dallesandro, Bob Delmonteque, Ed Fury, Brian Idol, Evert "Cherokee" Jackson, Yaroslav Mogutin, Dana Nicholson, Mark Nixon, Pat Rasile, Helmut Reidmeier, Tony Sansone, Matthew Sorrentino, Tony Ward, Rick Wayne, Steve Wengryn, Tabby Anderson, Jack Conant, Tom Mathews & Larry Carr, Gene Meyer, Johnny Miller, Forrester Millard, John Winship, Sam Hunter, Dick Spero, Monte Hanson, Bill Eld, Dick DuBois, Hugh Pendleton, Ralph Aspenleider, Jim Guissi, Art Byman, Bob Bud Mucci, Helmut Reidmeier Riedmeier, Carter Lovisone, Keith Stephan, Jim John Manning brothers NUDE BULGE SHIRTLESS HANDSOME TWINK twinkcake, buttocks, balls scrotum SPORTS TEAM athlete, VINTAGE shower, bathing, antique
Wendt's choice of subject was eclectic: from sensual and homoerotic portraits to tropical images of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and from picturesque scenes to compositions for which he used pre- mid century modernist stylistic devices and experimental techniques.
After his premature death in 1944 his negatives were destroyed, but his prints resurfaced in the 1990s, and are now part of several international private and museums collections. Wendt’s work will be exhibited at Documentary 14 in Athens, and a large scale retrospective will take place in the summer of 2017 at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam.
Calafran, Tony Lanza, Third World Studio, Chicago / Jim Jager ( Jaeger Yeager), Sierra Domino / Craig Calvin Anderson, Basil Clavering / Hussar, Foto Grafo FotoGrafo Sweden, Imbert Forlag Naturist Denmark, Mike Arlen Wetherby United Kingdom, Mel Roberts, Neil Edwards, Troy Saxon Stuart Rosenberg, Bobco, Pat Rocco, Cusido, RMX Richard Models Naturism, Vetruvian, Frank Collier Artkraft, Times Square Studio, Mark Lynch, Gerhardt Liebmann, Eadweard Muybridge, Paul Cadmus, Tuke, Luke Smalley, Wouter Deruytter, Gaetano D'Agata, Vincenzo Galdi, Pluschow, John Hernic, George Hoyningen Huene, Rudolph Koppitz, Raymond Voinquel Eakins Sig Siegmund Klein Tolson Mighty Appolon
The Photographers: Anonymous, Paval Antonov, Apollo (Richard Fontaine), Athletic Model Guild (Bob Mizer), John Barrington, David Bartolomi, Tom Bianchi, Andreas H. Bitesnich, Roy Blakey, Jean-Pierre Bonin, Bruce of Los Angeles (Bruce Bellas), Rick Castro, Champion (Walter Kundzicz), Aaron Cobbett, Bill Costa, Robert Cusido, Domenique (William Domenique), Douglas of Detroit (Douglas Juleff), Eleonora Drach, John Falocco, Ferrero of Nice (Jean Ferrero), Jim French, Greg Friedler, Greg Gorman, Lawrence Grecco, Kelly Grider, Ken Haak, Kristen Hallett, Michael Harwood, Tom Holdorf, Adian Jones, Chris Kinser, Kris of Chicago (Chuck Renslow), Terry Lewis, Lon of New York (Lon Hanagan), Mils, Jack Mitchell, Richard Mitchell, George Mott, Plato (George Haimsohn), George Platt Lynes, Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, Scott of London (Tom Nicholls), Skrebneski, Ira C. Smith, Stanley Stellar, Richard Taddei, Arthur Tress, Al Urban, , Igor Vishnyakov, Vulcan (Anthony Guyther), Western Photography Guild (Don Whitman), Avery Willard, Marc Yankus, Joe Ziolkowski. The Muses (the photographed): Neel Bate, Joe cali, John Converse, Joe Dallesandro, Bob Delmonteque, Ed Fury, Brian Idol, Evert "Cherokee" Jackson, Yaroslav Mogutin, Dana Nicholson, Mark Nixon, Pat Rasile, Helmut Reidmeier, Tony Sansone, Matthew Sorrentino, Tony Ward, Rick Wayne, Steve Wengryn, Tabby Anderson, Jack Conant, Tom Mathews & Larry Carr, Gene Meyer, Johnny Miller, Forrester Millard, John Winship, Sam Hunter, Dick Spero, Monte Hanson, Bill Eld, Dick DuBois, Hugh Pendleton, Ralph Aspenleider, Jim Guissi, Art Byman, Bob Bud Mucci, Helmut Reidmeier Riedmeier, Carter Lovisone, Keith Stephan, Jim John Manning brothers NUDE BULGE SHIRTLESS HANDSOME TWINK twinkcake, buttocks, balls scrotum SPORTS TEAM athlete, VINTAGE shower, bathing, antique
