"The unselfconscious and affectionate contact between men that is so startling and so characteristic of Tom Bianchi's photographs speaks to a reality rarely reported in art. The traditional fear of physical contact between men has been so potent a censor that few artists have broken the iron conventions designed to keep the classic male nude chaste....Bianchi broke new ground in the representation of the male nude when he asked some of his friends to join him in making pictures that celebrated their physical selves and their affectionate friendships. [His] work brings men out of the studio, out of the isolation of the classic male nude and into the sunlight."--the publisher.