Physique: The Life of John S. BarringtonIn wartime London, an eccentric figure stalked through the blackout sporting a monocle, long hair, a malacca cane, and a camera slung round his neck. Through a brightly lit underworld of caf's and bars, he chased the soldiers, sailors and airmen looking for love and a bed for the night. He befriended, seduced, and photographed them. Over the following decades John S. Barrington established himself as a pioneer of physique photography - the genteel foreplay to the porn explosion of the '70s. But John was uneasy with his sexuality, and, after a succession of unrequited love affairs with straight models, he married. A depiction of bohemian life in London, New York, and Paris, the outlandish schemes that often ended in prison, and a series of strange friendships with celebrities from Coward and Cocteau to Lennon and Bob Marley. |
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Introduction | 1 |
THE WEST END WAR | 25 |
ART AND ANATOMY 58 | 57 |
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