Photographers - Part 25

 Joachim Baldauf

Joachim Baldauf, born in 1965, is a German photographer and publisher living in Berlin.  Above: self-portrait.

His work is by no means limited to the male form, but he is fond of depicting nude males.  Above is a photo for an exhibition of Meissen china.  The figure is holding a china pot, presumably Meissen, but my guess is you're not looking at the china.

This is a portrait of artist Andreas Seyfarth.

This 2016 photo was done for a German safe-sex campaign.  It's unusual for Baldauf, who likes nudes but mostly avoids anything sexual.

The German edition of Cosmopolitan magazine asked Baldauf to do a series for their 30th anniversary.  However, the American mother company vetoed the photos because they were "too frontal."

Another image too frontal for Cosmopolitan.

And another.

And another.

Still too frontal.

We end with an image from Baldauf's photography book Der Subjektiv Mann (The Subjective Man).  He says, "I decided to start working on male nudes a few years ago because I didn't like most of the contemporary male nude photography. For me it is too trashy or too sleek. So I started to do it my way: non-retouched images of real men with a very classic lighting. Non-posed images of men whose sexuality, job or social status is not recognizable on the images."