We guys generally love the male body. That’s a given. But something magical and transformative happens when the male body is enhanced with uniforms and costumes that represent certain types of men. The clothing takes on a power of its own. Eric Lanuit explores this in his new exhibit, "Uniforms and Fantasies: The Photographs of Eric Lanuit."
Eric tells us: “Authority, power, heroism, strength, or simply the aesthetics of clothing and accessories, the enhancement of the male body — all these mixed feelings at the sight of a man in uniform awake our imagination and strata of our homoerotic cultural unconscious.
“The uniform, but also the work clothes, the regulation outfits, the sports gear, the fetishist outfits — these clothes and accessories excite libido and imagination though the promise of masculine sex overflowing with testosterone, hot games of domination and submission, exhibitionism, and worship.”
Whew, OK, we’re there.
For more information see Eric’s website, Facebook, and Instagram.
At La Mine, 20 Rue du Plâtre, 75004 Paris, France
And check out some of Eric's work here on Advocate.com.
