Bel Ami: Intimate Friends
Language: English
Published by Bruno Gmunder, Berlin, 2001
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19cm x 14cm. [68] pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial matte papered boards. BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio's extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture. Category: LGBTIQ+; Sexuality::Art & Erotica; LGBTIQ+::Gay Studies; 21st Century: 2000-2009; Photography. ISBN: 3861872196. ISBN/EAN: 9783861872191. Inventory No: 0037472.…
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- Title
- Bel Ami: Intimate Friends
- Author
- George Duroy
- Publisher
- Bruno Gmunder, Berlin
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3861872196
- ISBN 13
- 9783861872191
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- LGBTIQ+
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The Book Merchant Jenkins is an antiquarian bookseller and auction house buying and selling rare and interesting books in all genres with a focus on Sexuality, LGBTIQ+, Ethnopharmacology, Counterculture, and Art. After twenty years in Brisbane, The Book Merchant Jenkins has relocated to alongside the Huon River in far south Tasmania. The new book house will open to visitors in 2027. You can find Jenkins exhibiting at the following book fairs in 2026: London (14-17 May), Melbourne (30 July-1 August), Berlin (14-20 September), Sydney (22-24 October). Books can also be ordered online at any time.…
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