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Grindr publishes artsy, sexy coffee table book in memory of… Orlando?
Grindr publishes artsy, sexy coffee table book in memory of… Orlando?
This just in: Grindr has launched its very own publishing house and has commissioned a fancy new coffee table book featuring the work of Berlin-based photographer Matt Lambert to go along with its line of sexy athleisure wear released earlier this year.
Home features a series of portraits of gay men who Lambert connected with through the app, as well as other social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. In true Grindr form, the models are all young, thin, and naked, with a tendency toward Anglo.
Related: Too Many White Guys On Grindr & Too Many Are Racist, Blogger Laments
“I’d say the average age was probably, like, 21 or 22,” Lambert tells Dazed, adding that the limited-edition, 102-page book is intended to be “a snapshot of about twenty people that I’d met and had a conversation with about the ways digital or virtual spaces have helped them find a sanctuary or solidarity.”
He continues: “A lot of my work deals with intimacy and digital spaces and I’m not trying to present this dystopian view of the world, that romance is dead as a result of the internet, but rather to say ‘hey, we’re here now and digital spaces have done some really fucking incredible things for people over the last couple of years’.”
Related: Grindr Has Ruined Absolutely EVERYTHING, Disgruntled Blogger Laments
According to Grindr’s creative director Landis Smithers, the project was also inspired by the Orlando tragedy.
“After Orlando, we began to look for ways to express this common sense we all had that something had been taken away from us,” Smithers tells Dazed. “A sense of comfort in each other, in the ability to be safe, to walk or speak or simply exist in places we had taken for granted were ‘ours’.”
Lambert adds, “These spaces are incredibly important places to come of age, often before we’re able to come of age and come out in the real world. So the idea was just to document conversations with young gay men and ask them when and where that space was for them.”
It should be noted, however, that none of the book’s proceeds will actually go to any of the victims of the shooting.
Related: Turns Out Grindr Is A Godsend If You’re Gay, Twentysomething, And Disabled
Home is currently available for preorder and will ship after the new year. Here’s a sampling of what’s inside…
Gay Married Couple Enshrined in Mosaic Mural in NYC’s Newest Subway Station
Gay Married Couple Enshrined in Mosaic Mural in NYC’s Newest Subway Station
NYC’s Second Avenue subway, a line that has been planned since the 1910s and under construction since 1972, is finally opening on January 1. Its stations features public art by Chuck Close, Vik Muniz, Jean Shin and Sarah Sze.
At the 72nd street station features a mosaic mural by Vik Muniz called “Perfect Strangers” which depicts “the different people that riders are likely to encounter on their daily commutes” according to the AP, and among them is the above picture of gay love:
That depiction of love between gay men is a rarity in public art, experts say.
“It was like winning the lottery,” Thor Stockman, 60, said of finding out that he and his husband of 3 ½ years, Patrick Kellogg, were going to be part of artist Vik Muniz‘s “Perfect Strangers,” a series of life-size mosaic portraits of everyday New Yorkers gracing the walls of the new subway station at 72nd Street. But “part of me wishes that it wasn’t a rarity, that it wasn’t remarkable.”
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“They are just people you would expect to see,” Muniz, who divides his time between New York and Brazil, said in phone interview from Rio de Janeiro. “You would expect to see men holding hands.”
More on the new subway stations here and here.
(photo: metropolitan transportation authority)
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Gay Married Couple Enshrined in Mosaic Mural in NYC’s Newest Subway Station
