Night Hawks | 
| Author: Ohm Phanphiroj
Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 533506
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 98
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 3861874709
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9783861874706
ASIN: 3861874709
Publication Date: November 30, 2007
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Product Description
Unvarnished, candid and uncensored - Phanphiroj's newest work! His fi rst book ROUGH STUFF (2004) earned Ohm Phanphiroj international acclaim. The mixture of voyeurism, provocation and sensual intimacy between him and his models had a huge and lasting impact on gay photographic identity. His follow-up work, RARE VIEWS (2006) also took a similar approach and was even more successful. With NIGHTHAWKS Phanphiroj presents himself anew as a sensitive and impartial artist, a portraitist of young self-discovery in a world moving at a tearing pace. Sexually charged scenes are interspersed with melancholy moments. Nothing is hidden here, which is exactly what the photographer's fan love - the captivating honesty of his images.
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 Decent work, but not an extensive of his previous efforts June 18, 2008
Tim Evanson (Washington, DC United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ohm Phanphiroj's first book was a relative breakthrough in photography of the male nude. His technique was imitative of grainy Polaroids (although it was taken digitally), with lush but dark colors. His models were largely no different than most: Tall, rangy, beautiful, coiffed to the limit, affecting a lazy sensuality in down-at-the-mouth settings. "Look, ma! I'm so beautiful, but I'm in this roach-infested motel!"
Nonetheless, Phanphiroj's initial work was interesting because he never employed the "jocks on rocks" style favored by Steven Underhill, Tom Bianchi, Howard Roffman, and others.
"Night Hawks," unfortunately, doesn't quite go beyond his two previous books. His style remains firmly static, his models may well have appeared in the first two books for all that they look alike, and his work seems more derivative of photographers like Michael Huhn ("Peep Show"), Slava Mogutin ("NYC Go-Go") and David "Old Reliable" Hurles ("Speeding") -- except that all these other photographers were doing this type of work years ago.
Phanphiroj has incredible talent, there's no denying that. But as an artist, he's not growing. Not changing. Not seeking out different ways of implementing his vision.
If all the reader were looking for was beautiful, naked Calvin Klein models wearing dingy jeans and lolling around in cheap digs, this book would rate "5 stars." As art, as visionary photography, as something different and grasping and seeking -- not just different from other artists but from Phanphiroj's own prior work -- it is only so-so.
 Rugged and Raw November 14, 2007
Paul A. Minafri (Phoenix, Arizona)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This photo essay of rugged men in raw and sordid places adds spice and bite to the genre of Male Picture Coffee Table Books. Be prepared for stark sexuality here.
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