#arcadian photography

Edoardo before a mock door on an ancient Roman grave, in the impressive ruins of Pompeii. We can see another of Plüschow’s shots in the same location here.

Much as I love Vincenzo Galdi’s striking and often erotically charged photography, it is an equal delight to see him as a lovely young man modelling for his mentor, and lover, Guglielmo Plüschow. Few of the Arcadian photographers’ models became so involved in the process of creating images, and Galdi alone went on to work as a professional photographer in his own right. Here he sits in the ruined ancient Roman city of Pompeii, around 1895 - note his toes tucked neatly around the back of his calf!

A marvellous example of the Arcadian artistic nudes which so beautifully fill the catalogue of Wilhelm von Gloeden; this a much larger copy than most and well worth expending an extra moment of your time to open up the full size view. 

Two fine young men pose nude (but for the pair of Roman sandals), in the cloister of the abandoned San Domenico monastery, 1902. We have seen the stunning model on the left before, here.

Male Nude with Pan Pipes, c1900, by Plüschow - a simpler background than many, and all the more distinctive for that, as our attention is concentrated on the fantastically photogenic form of this beautiful broad-shouldered young man, with that charmingly eccentric mess of ruffled black hair over his forehead.