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Biography:
Victor Magide was born in New York City to
parents who escaped Castro's Cuba. He was raised in Miami. At the
age of four, Victor became deaf as a result of an ear infection.
His family sent him to the Florida School for the Deaf in St.
Augustine, where he learned to speak and read lips. Victor is
fluent in English, Spanish and American Sign Language.
After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Victor opened
his own photo studio, doing promotional and commercial work and
developing his own artistic talents as an accomplished
photographer. He specializes in fashion as well as male erotica.
His work has taken him to New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and
Madrid. His photographs have appeared in many international
magazines, most recently being featured in Select America,
Fashion Spectrum Magazine, Ocean Drive Magazine, Blue Magazine
from Australia, Miamigo Magazine from South Beach,
Currently, Victor has his own PhotoGraphx studio, a multi-service agency
located in South Beach that handles diverse assignments including
recording and fashion artists. Each of the black and white
photographs in this web site are hand printed in his darkroom.
Hope you enjoy these beautiful men!
Special Announcement:
This photographer is looking for some sexy hot
men and women to promote a calendar and greeting cards. If
chosen, these models will be required to sign a release for their
pictures to be published in some fashion magazines and commercial
printworks. Model will be paid by these clients.
Clients:
Sony Music International, Michelle Pommier Model
Agency, Stellar Model Agency, Green/Green Model Agency, Irene
Marie Model Agency, LIME (formerly Ally Cat) Model Agency,
Firestone Publishing Magazine.
Contact:
Victor
Magide Photography
934 16th St. Suite 9
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Studio: (305) 672-6511
Fax: (305) 672-1985
E-Mail:PhImages65@aol.com
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Berenice Abbott
(1898-1991)
 Abbott was a photographer born in Ohio and
raised there by her mother following her parents divorce. In 1918
she moved to New York City to become a sculptor. Abbott befriended
a Greenwich Village crowd including Djuna Barnes, Man Ray and
Marcel Duchamp. In 1921 she moved to Paris and lived there until
1929, save for a brief stay in Berlin. Abbott worked at several
jobs, often as an artist's model. Near poverty, Ray hired her as
his assistant in 1923 where she learned photography and in 1926
opened her own studio. As a photographer she promoted her own work
and was credited with rediscovering and popularizing the works of
Eugène Atget.
Abbott was acquainted with many lesbians who had
emigrated to Paris as well as their friends and photographed many
of them. Abbott shot her subjects in relaxed, natural poses and
created some of the most memorable photographs from that era. Her
male peers considered her a renegade. Abbott's subjects included
Barnes, Sylvia Beach, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, James Joyce,
Marie Laurencin, Claude McKay and Barnes' lover, Thelma Wood.
When she returned to New York, Abbott
taught and compiled two photo documentaries, "Changing New
York" and "Route 1." In 1958 she began a series of
science photographs which reestablished her reputation as a
leading photographer. Abbott's later years were spent living and
working in Maine.
Berenice
Abbott is considered one of the 20th century's greatest photographers. Her New
York City images, especially the Changing New York project of
1935-39, have come to define Depression-era New York. Online
Resources:
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Photography Collection-
Changing New York, 1935-1938
-- Online images from The Miriam & Ira Wallach Division of
Art, Prints and Photographs Collection at the Humanities and
Social Sciences Division of the New York Public Library |
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Berenice
Abbott Biography -- Short biography of Berenice Abbott,
but one that fails to mention Abbott's associations with early
to mid-century Lesbian Culture. |
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Notes on
Changing New York -- Part of the The Miriam &
Ira Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs Collection
at the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the New York
Public Library |
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Stephen
Ratliff
Alternistock is a Limited Liability Company set
up to sell gay and lesbian stock imagery on the internet using an
online searchable database. Our stock photography is geared to the
professional photo buyer. We offer high quality lifestyle images
with integrity from the gay and lesbian community. None of our
images will appear in any clipart collections. We can tell you
exactly where the images have appeared, if there are similars and
if they are released. Fees are quoted on a specific use including:
size, placement, circulation, distribution (local, national or
international), length of display time, uniqueness of the image
and cost of production.
Contact Phone: 323-982-8943
Contact Fax: 323-982-8975
Contact email: Stephen@Alternistock.com
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These photos are from a larger collection at the
Lesbian Legacy
Collection, Los Angeles.
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Beautiful website of male models.
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A London-based Photographic Stock Library and
Photo Agency, devoted to Gay and Lesbian images and run by Gay and
Lesbian people.
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This web site is dedicated to recording and
preserving the names and work of lesbian photographers and women
who have photographed lesbians.
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