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Players

Bruno Gmunder / Year: 2009

Book Hardcover More Info ISBN: 9783867871105 Catalog #: BH2766414	Usually ships in 5-10 days	$55.99 (20% off) List Price: $69.99
Book Hardcover 4th Edition More Info 4th Edition ISBN: 9783867870177 Catalog #: BH2766416	Usually ships in 5-10 days	$74.99 (16% off) List Price: $89.99

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Synopsis

Rick Day's models have an exhibitionistic tendency. His photos are worked over to give their rock–hard bodies a strong and special glow.

PLEASE NOTE: There are two different versions available for order.
ISBN: 9783867871105
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11.25"
Pages: 144

ISBN: 9783867870177
Dimensions: 10.25" x 13.50"
Pages: 144

3 Reasons To buy this book

Skin, skin, skin!
We have a thing for jocks
This is an obvious 4-star book that you cannot miss!

Review

Each season a slew of photo books lands on my desk, they pile up and wait for me to pull back the cover. On many occasions I never get past the first ten pages before I grow bored. Even some of the seasoned veterans of gay photography make a misstep and the result is a book that rehashes everything we have already seen. Then I get the rare treat of finding a book by someone relatively unknown, a book that exudes confidence and sensuality before you even look inside. Such is the case with Rick Day's Players. Size queens will delight in the massive measurements of 10" x 14" and the cover image is very indicative of the pleasures waiting for you. Day has created a sweaty spectacle of athletes from swimming to boxing to hockey and gymnastics. He clearly does not shy away from skin and he uses the overt sexuality of the models' bodies to their full potential. I would like to give the photographer all of the credit but the models he uses are impeccable and would probably be so even without Day's bankable style.

Beautiful male athletes, sensational style and enough skin to sate even the most voracious appetite all add up to the perfect blend of a glossy fashion ad and the musky roughness of vintage gay porn. This is an undeniable 4–star stunner and the obvious standout book of the season.

-- Nick Strathern

Product Format Information

Book Hardcover: $55.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Dimensions: 9 X 11
Photos: Color
ISBN: 9783867871105
Catalog #: BH2766414

Publisher : Bruno Gmunder

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Book Hardcover: $74.99 (4th Edition)

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Dimensions: 10 X 14
Photos: Color
ISBN: 9783867870177
Catalog #: BH2766416

Publisher : Bruno Gmunder

Customer Reviews

It's All In The Game!

Grady Harp wrote on 12/25/2011:

Rick Day is a practiced and highly visible photographer and his specialty seems to be describing the heat of the athletic games he captures so well on film and in his multiple monographs. This big book is not an exception.

Whether day has found true athletes or use models to pose as athletes is a moot point: none of these well muscled men could have come by these physiques without rigorous athletic workouts! But here Day places them in (and out of!) uniforms of ice skaters, football players, hockey players, gymnasts, swimmers - name a sport and there is an example here The emphasis is on the healthy, fit male, either preparing for are relaxing after a game. The poses he is able to arrange with his models are well designed and place the men on pedestals for the reader to admire. As one admirer phrased it 'Beautiful male athletes, sensational style and enough skin to sate even the most voracious appetite all add up to the perfect blend of a glossy fashion ad and the musky roughness of vintage macho stance.' Another collector's item for fans of male photography - both male and female!

Grady Harp