Men Untitled

Sold out in the U.S. EU / UK orders only. Soft flexicover with flaps, embossed tip-on and booklet 118 pages, 33 color / 23 duotone plates9 x 11.75 in. / 229 x 298 mmSigned by the artistBooklet with text in English and French 2023ISBN 978-1-942953-60-9TBW Books is pleased to present Men Untitled by Carolyn Drake, a new series of photographs exploring her relationship to myths of masculinity in American culture.Following Knit Club (2012–2020), a subversive work about a community of women in rural Mississippi, Drake shifts her gaze in Men Untitled. In contrast to her previous work, her subjects are uprooted from their geographies. Erasing nearly all signs of place, Drake invites the viewer to look directly at the male bodies in front of her camera.The subjects in Men Untitled appear nude or half-dressed, frozen in awkward poses, torsos twisted and bent, backward facing, wearing furniture, and even hung upside down. But they also appear to be at ease with—possibly even act