june 17.2QQ5*
Friends & Brothers
by Adam Raphael; HM Publishers,
2004; $14.95 softcover
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FRIEND' & BROTHERS
Adam
Raphael
Chicago
A razzle, dazzle song
hotographer Adam Raphael has assembled
an appealing, affordable collection of color
and black-and-white images of twenty
something hunks in Friends & Brothers.
The book is filled with a multicultural array
of shirtless athletes surfing, shooting hrxips,
playing tackle football on a beach, frolicking in
a swimming pcxil, wrestling in a park and tak
ing it easy afterward. A few underwear shots
are thrown in, too, but Friends & Brothers is
rated PG, so don’t expect any full-frontal
nudes.
“Gallery directors and photography dealers
talk about the
pictures, but I
prefer to talk
about the m<xJ-
els,” Raphael
writes in the
foreword. “Per
haps because
my photogra
phy is such an
organic exten
sion of my eye,
I don’t give it
as much
thought as I do
the mcxJels.”
Fortunately,
Raphael has
exemplary taste
in men—that
and dance musical
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is, if you’re into
hairless young
things. However,
some of the studio
shots appear to have
been overly touched
up to enhance the
models’ features;
hasn’t he heard it’s
not nice to mess
with Mother
Nature?
—Jim Radosui JF1
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Saturday July 30 8am
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Sunday July 31 2pm
Minister Deb wiM officiate service.
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