These stunning photographs, taken from a stack of Bruce's unpublished private photo albums, now in a private collection, reveal a world of masculine camaraderie and eroticism often written about in recent years, but seldom recorded by the camera. A window, if you will, into the past. An era before Stonewall, in homophobic rightwing America, showing men living, loving & filled with joy. Here are real men captured with remarkable candor. Some of these images, taken with a relaxed informality and voyeuristic pleasure not evident in Bruce's later studio work, have occasionally appeared over the years in blurred and grainy second and third generation copy photos never attributed to their creator. Seen individually, the more overtly erotic of these portraits have inspired many male sexual fantasies; seen together as a body of work, they represent a significant historical and cultural document. Introduced with a creative nonfiction narrative that offers the reader a feel for the era and motivations of the photographer and his models. The Naked Heartland brings together a unique and important collection of erotic photographs rescued from obscurity and presented with a genuine appreciation for all they represent.

The Naked Heartland Photos by Bruce Harry Bellas; text by Kevin Bentley.
Hardcover, 9 x 11 ¼, 128 page, over 140 black & white photos.
ISBN 3-925443-88-6 retail $59.95
The images contained in "The Naked Heartland" as well as all of the early Bruce Bellas collection
are solely owned by Mr. Teri Noel Towe

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