Bøger udgivet af PAUL FREEMAN PUB

Bloke is a photo collection of male nude portraits, set in rural and outback Australia. The book's story takes us on a journey through a day until dusk, observing men in their work locations, from shearing sheds to cattle yards in the morning to mechanic shops in the midday heat, truck stops and depots in the late afternoon and at sunset, we escape with the men into the cooling bushland for a swim in the river. Freeman revisits themes from both the Outback and Larrikin series, creating a sensual heroic story out of stoicism and camaraderie forged in the isolation of the vast and lonely outback. This quality art book is quality large formatted and hardback bound art stock pages.

The story of Vagabondo, a collection of male nudes and portraits, begins in Ireland, in spring time, with farmhands cavorting in lush fields and rustic farm yards, then moves across to industrial London and, after a brief interlude of fighting athleticism, cuts to Italy where labourers work and camp out in derelict palazzos in Sicily and Puglia. With their grace and beauty revealed amidst gorgeous decay they wrestle in cleansing showers and are finally submerged in Sistine waters. The cathartic climax occurs atop black mountains and amidst burnt forests and our now elevated vagrants assume Olympian status in this grim wilderness, before the volcanic landscape reveals ancient ocean cliffs and a pathway out of mythic winter melancholia, back into reality, a contemporary summer set around ocean surf, where the men can relax and revel." This art book is quality large formatted and hardback bound art stock pages.

Ian is Paul's first book of photos of just one man. It is also remarkable as it was photographed on just two summer days, a year apart, in between Covid lockdowns in Australia. The first shoot is centered around the 1976 Bedford Van that Ian travelled and lived in, which he had largely re-built himself, and depicts his beachside lifestyle, while the second shoot on location in the outback focuses on Ian's job as a mechanic and some of his hobbies. The book is quality large formatted and hardback bound art stock pages.