Two of von Gloeden’s amateur models from Taormina, their somewhat mottled skintone due to the unusually early ‘fake tan’ mixture of pigment and oil used to conceal the tan lines from their everyday lives - you can see how much darker their faces and necks appear, natural deepening of colour where they’ve worked outdoors in their shirts. My thanks to reader Forster for kindly pointing me towards this and a few other photographs not yet shared.
Photographed by Vincenzo Galdi at the end of the 19th century, this portrait in classical style features an early appearance - indeed perhaps the very first! - by a fine young man who would soon find his fame in far more explicit and erotic images; we know him as Il Serpente.
Model: Dylan Armstrong |MGM, Premier, Why Not| Photographer: Bryan Huynh Website:bryanhuynh.com Model Dylan Armstrong at Premier teams up with London based photographer Bryan Huynh for a subtle new portrait series.
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