du plaisir ! L'homme dans l'art, sous toutes ses formes et à toutes les époques.
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ODD CELEBRITY IMAGING (with the obvious religious reference but also, a culturally aware photographer at least should have known, an allusion to gay St Sebastian iconography... *)

DAVID BECKHAM is pictured at a (relatively) early stage of his tattoo adornment...
...AT WHAT stage does the ancient art of the tattoo move from 'magical thinking'/personal or artistic expression/political statement or declaration of allegiance...
...TO A COMPULSION to self-harm or to 'disappear' the self (a compulsion with whatever deep roots)?

* THE CHRIST is rarely naked in this iconography, a Sebastiane often is...
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1497-1500 Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) - Portrait of a Man
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Gustave Caillebotte, Man Drying his Leg, 1884 Oil on canvas, 100 x 125 cm (39 1⁄4 x 49 1⁄2 in.) Paris, Galerie Brame & Lorenceau
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Young Man on the Rocks (Oil on Canvas) by Theo Tucker Styn, 1901.
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Gustav Klimt Two male acts, Study for the Athletes, ca. 1904
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Wrestling with an Angel. Cornelius McCarthy.1935-2009.
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His Worship The Mayor of Beverley, Alderman Harry Wray: Frederick William Elwell, 1921.
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