Brad Johnston — Deep Blue

Studio Magazines Sydney First Edition Fine Condition 26cm x 22cm. 215 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial french fold wrappers. A special issue of Not Only Blue celebrating masculine sexuality featuring photography too explicit for the magazine. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. "Blue's agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues" (Blue's editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others. Category: Sexuality; Photography; Sexuality::Art & Erotica; LGBTIQ+::Gay Studies; 21st Century (2000s); LGBTIQ+. ISBN: 0975088181. ISBN/EAN: 9780975088180. Inventory No: 0035635.