Book Review: Iron Men by Lorenzo Gomex
By Eric Page
Aug 22, 2009 - 1:51:20 PM
Well they’re certainly not from Scotland, or made from
girders and there’s not much iron just a fair bit of rust, but somehow behind the clichéd title and
settings there’s some good images in this book. Maybe it is because they are all
hard bodied and oiled up Latino men that I can overlook the perfectly torn
T-shirts and shredded jeans that conspire to reveal even more of the thunderous
thighs or ripped abdomens of these brainless men. Perhaps their Hispanic handsomeness distracts me from
the chains and deserted desert industrial shacks that these models all find
themselves wrapped and posed in, for the men are certainly eye catching. I’m sure I overlooked the silly torn
overalls and dirty boots while looking over the meaty masculinity of Mario,
Jesus or Chip.
So photo clichés aside you get a lot of full colour photos
for your money and the photographer – Lorenzo Gomex certainly know his way
around the Barrio.
His previous book ‘Dios Latino’ was a sell out hit and this
one is of the same standard. It feels like an erotic and full frontal Vogue
photo shoot. The men express the full range of Latino hunk diversity and are
all posed in classical Hispanic attitudes of macho life; workmen, grease monkeys
miners etc. It’s softly erotic, but plenty of nudity and no coyness. Its hard
backed rather than hard-on. Most
of them look like they are more familiar with the inside of a beauty and waxing
salon than a dirty garage, but hey who’s splitting hairs. None of these men
have a single one out of place.
So to sum up, Yum.
£22.95
Out now from the publishers: www.turnaround-uk.com
Or from most good gay bookshops.
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