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David Rollins by F.W. Murnau 01 by F. W. Murnau
MNI Visual Edition 01

EXPOSED!

More than a century of men in front of the camera — art study, movement, physique, private portraiture, documentary life, public space, and the changing visual language of the nude male body.

70 photographs1850s–2010sArt · history · photography
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The features

The archive works like a magazine first and a database second. Start with a visual story, then move into individual photographs, photographers, eras, and rights records.

François Moracchini, boxer by Agence Rol
Stage 3

New to MNI: 1927–1998

Hollywood, athletes, wartime documentary, physique culture, performance, and public bodies expand the archive by nineteen photographs.

Animal Locomotion — Plate 1 by Eadweard Muybridge
Feature

The Body in Motion

Muybridge turns the nude body into sequence.

Nude Men in the Garden by Thomas Eakins
Portfolio

Eakins Uncovered

The male model as physical fact rather than distant ideal.

Marlboro Man Nude Photograph, NYC by Victor Arimondi
MNI Centerpiece

Marlboro Man, NYC

Victor Arimondi puts an exposed male body against a giant commercial image of masculinity: one body lived, the other manufactured and sold.

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The archive

Seventy cleared records organized by photographer, era and theme, with source and rights details attached to every photograph.

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