Brooklyn Boys at Strand Books

Several friends mentioned to us that they had seen a nice stack of Brooklyn Boys on the second floor of Strand Books, New York City booklovers’ trove for bargain and rare publications. So we stopped in on our way home and found our monograph on Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux in good company with George Platt Lynes, Tom of Finland, Bruce Bellas and many others. Stop…

Set Up for the NY Photo Show: Tomorrow & Saturday

Tonight, we were at the Lighthouse on 59th Street between Park and Lex, setting up the BigKugels Photographic booth for tomorrow’s NY Photo Show. As you can see, Brooklyn Boys is well represented. Bring your copy of the book and get it signed, or buy a signed copy at the show! As you can see, there are plenty of photos to peruse as well, so join…

Brooklyn Boys at NY Photo Show, April 11 & 12

BigKugels Photographic will have signed copies of their book Brooklyn Boys: Danny Fitzgerald & Les Demi Dieux, as well as several of Fitzgerald’s vintage photographs, at the annual New York Photo Show at the Lighthouse, April 11th and 12th. Come meet “the guys” of BigKugels Photographic who wrote and edited the recently released 160-page fine art book on Fitzgerald’s work, at the fastest growing multi-exhibitor…

Brooklyn Boys 5: The Photography

This is the last in a series of excerpts from the biographical introduction to Brooklyn Boys, the new monograph on Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux. With the recent resurgence of interest in the works of Fitzgerald’s contemporaries like Mel Roberts, Bruce Bellas, and Walter Kundzicz of Champion Studio, male nude photography from the early 1960s is being reevaluated for its history, technique, and artistic…

Ready! On the shelves at Steven Kasher Gallery

We love seeing the book on the shelves. Can’t wait to see the photos on the walls. Brooklyn Boys: Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux the book is on the shelves at Steven Kasher Gallery, ready for tomorrow night’s exhibit opening and book signing. Please join us at the gallery, at 521 West 23rd Street, from 6 to 8 p.m. The photographer’s model, muse,…

Brooklyn Boys 4: Les Demi Dieux

This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from the biographical introduction to Brooklyn Boys, the new monograph on Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux. In the early 1960s, Danny Fitzgerald and Richard Bennett also began promoting Fitzgerald’s photography under the studio name “Les Demi Dieux.” Working under an assumed name was not uncommon in the 1940s and ’50s when photographers were persecuted…

In Good Company at Rizzoli Books on 57th Street New York

Pleased to see Brooklyn Boys on the shelf at Rizzoli’s flagship store on 57th Street in New York.

Brooklyn Boys Arrive in the USA

The suspense has been killing us! But good news: Brooklyn Boys has arrived at its United States distributor and should be delivered to Amazon within the next ten days. (So, ignore those pesky Amazon notices and extended delivery dates.) And we see it’s already available on the TLA website. We’re monitoring the delivery and we’ll keep you posted!

Brooklyn Boys 3: Richard Bennett

This is the third in a series of excerpts from the biographical introduction to Brooklyn Boys, the new monograph on Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux. With the start of the 1960s, Fitzgerald met Richard Bennett, the man who would become his collaborator and life partner until Fitzgerald’s death in 2000. A chiseled, masculine beauty with the natural ability of a classic artistic poser,…

Brooklyn Boys 2: Early Photography

This is part two in a series of excerpts from the biographical introduction to Brooklyn Boys, the new monograph on Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux. Fitzgerald also looked beyond Brooklyn in the late 1950s when he began photographing the young men he met at Abe Goldberg’s gym, worlds away on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A small but fit man with his Hasselblad…