Roy Stuart
Roy Stuart (born October 25, 1955 in New York City ) is an American nude photographer and director. He lives in Paris, his previous books have been misplaced by Taschen . The main motifs of his works can be found in the area of fetishism (especially nylons and high heels )
Career
Stuart started his career as a fashion photographer. In the 1980s he published nudes in Puritan magazine , an offshoot of Hustler magazine. At the end of the decade he moved from London to Paris. He met the editor of men's magazines Dian Hanson , who published photographs of him in the fetish magazine Leg Show in 1988 . Between 1993 and 2001 he produced a monthly photo story for the magazine. During this time he also created his eight "Glimpse" videos.
style
A characteristic of Stuart's photographs is a refined mixture of glamor and pornography , which strongly accentuates his female models. The “hypocritical” use and commercial exploitation of sexuality in product advertising (“sex sells”, “ sexploitation ”) prompted Stuart to develop his own imagery that would change the relationship between the sexes. He tries to moralize subversively with erotic photography, sexuality is morally good for him. In the foreword to the book Roy Stuart I (1998), Jean-Claude Baboulin describes him as a “moral pornographer” after Angela Carter .
He also tries - often with a voyeuristic view and with stylistic devices of fetishism and sadomasochism - to parody conventional ideas of sexuality , stereotypes , role assignments and ideals of beauty and to reverse power relations in his photographs.
Movie
His one-hour film Giulia from 1999 was shown on Italian television (producer Tinto Brass ). An Italian politician tried to ban the broadcast because one of the actresses urinated in front of the Vatican.
In 2004 Stuart made the film The Fourth Body and in 2008 The lost Door .
Indexing in Germany
On February 13, 2003, at the request of the public prosecutor's office, the Berlin-Tiergarten District Court ordered the seizure of three of Stuart's books because of “distribution of pornographic writings” according to Section 184 Paragraphs 1, 2 and 8 III StGB . These are the illustrated books "Roy Stuart Volume I-III" published by Taschen-Verlag ; according to the website Zensur.org of the media scientist Dr. Roland Seim , these works have been indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People since May 2009 , which indicates that the seizure was not carried out in 2003. The three volumes are no longer included in the Taschen Verlag offer.
bibliography
- Roy Stuart I , Taschen, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-8228-7872-3
- Roy Stuart II , Taschen, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8228-6870-1
- Roy Stuart III , Taschen, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8228-3584-6
- Roy Stuart - 30 postcards , Taschen, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8228-6084-0
- Roy Stuart IV - The Fourth Body (incl. DVD video), Taschen, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-8228-6054-9
- Roy Stuart - Postcard Collection , Edition ArtcardboX, 2008, no ISBN
- Roy Stuart V (including DVD video), Taschen, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8228-4501-1
- Roy Stuart - Leg Collection Box Set , Taschen, Köln, ISBN 3-8228-3934-5 (postponed indefinitely)
Web links
- Literature by and about Roy Stuart in the catalog of the German National Library
- Roy Stuart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- www.roystuart.net , Glimpse Films
- www.thelostdoor.com , film, 2008
- Erographic.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ pagewizz.com Roy Stuart - an elegant erotomaniac
- ↑ the-saleroom.com: Roy Stuart (born 1955), New York ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Fourth Body
- ^ The lost door
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stuart, Roy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American nude photographer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |