“Since 1975, as a fine-art photographer, my specialization is exploring different aspects of erotica, sexuality and gender. I am interested in photographing subject matter that offers many challenges, obstacles and difficulties dealing with the pathology of our times with references to sociology. All series are photographed for two years or more and all subsequent series evolve from the previous one.
Photographing the female gender embracing their male persona in the late 1990’s of female-to-male transsexuals, male impersonators, drag kings and androgyny challenges the social construction of gender. My lifetime mission and on-going series of photographing male nudes, “She Shoots Men” is motivated by my desire to transform the imbalance that still exists with the pervasiveness of the double-standard in nude photography. “
Vivienne Maricevic‘s desire to reveal, challenge, and transform the imbalance between the frequent representation of the naked female form and the rarity of male nudity is led by more than three decades spent devoted to the unadorned male form. While capturing scores of male subjects, she discovered that the majority had never been photographed by a female; the men all welcomed the role-reversal and the opportunity to confront the disparity it suggested.
Included in this compendium are more than 150 images from three of Maricevic’s most distinct periods: 1975-2005’s “Naked Men,” all taken in the subjects’ homes; 1994-2002’s “Me & Men,” with Maricevic cleverly engaging her subjects by inserting a piece of herself into the frame; and 2001-2005’s “Strip-to-Strip,” an homage to Eadweard Muybridge’s iconic “Horse in Motion.” Her bold, creative synergy solidified a career built on intimate photographs of men au naturel. They are, at times, playful, erotic, or controversial – but always beautiful.
BOOK
She Shoots Men
by Vivienne Maricevic
Schiffer Publishing Ltd (november 2013)
159 pages
30,5 x 23,1 x 2,3 cm
ISBN-10: 0764345109
50$
http://sheshootsmen.com
