Makos: A Stonewall Inn Book (Stonewall Inn Book/Photographer)

From his start photographing Andy Warhol at the factory, Christopher Makos has established an exciting collection of male nudes. This is his first publication of them.

Christopher Makos, once identified by Andy Warhol as "the most modern photographer in America," offers up a tasty collection of pretty boys in his fourth collection of pictures. His models are, as Bruce Hainley writes in the introduction, "really into being out of it," and it's not always clear from the expressions on his subjects' faces whether they're way into themselves or oblivious to everything around them while they hone their bodies. It's that attractive vacuity that Makos captures so effectively in his stark compositions.