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Dianora Niccolini was born October 1936 in Florence, Italy, is widely considered to be one of the female pioneers in the photography of the male nude. She was President of PWP Professional Women Photographers from 1979 until 1984. Niccolini's work has had multiple gallery showings and been published in many magazines and over twenty anthologies. Although Niccolini's specialty was in photographing the male nude, this was a style relegated to homosexual circles and was considered taboo at the time. In 1975, however, the Third Eye Gallery in New York gave Niccolini a solo exhibition. This was the first gallery exhibit of male nudes by anyone, and is thought to have legitimized and de-stigmatized the male nude in the art community. 
 




In early 2005, Niccolini began working with Mega Muscle Productions, a publisher of images of male fitness models. In 2011, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Tampa, Florida, mounted a solo exhibition of Niccolini's photography.

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Stanley Stellar.

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Stellar began taking pictures of tattoed men, approaching them (not only gay men) and easily getting them to take their pants off for a picture. “I got birds too” remains an iconic image of the emerging gay eroto-aesthetic of the ‘70s. This image was one of the first to be mass-produced on postcards. His professional career includes innumerable book designs, editorial design and art direction for numerous magazines and publishing houses. 
 








His work has shown in many galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe, magazines and books.

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Stanley Stellar is born in 1945 in Brooklyn, New York. He is considered one of the photographers of the early period of gay liberation. Many of his pictures have become icons of that history. The important Leslie-Lohman Foundation has dedicated to his work a fundamental exhibition in 2011. From 1962 to 1965 Stellar has frequented the Parsons School of Design, Department of Graphic Design, New York; worked as editorial designer, visual coordinator, creative assistant and art director for The New York Native Newspaper, Christopher Street Magazine, That New Magazine, Penthouse Publishing, Art Direction Magazine, Fandango, Expanding Cinema, Avant Garde Magazine.

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 Mel Roberts.