Bench Uncut 2010
A Bold Look at the Future and Remembering the Past
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Bench has been successful in stripping down hot celebrities for more than a decade. In 1999, Bench published a 120 - page coffee table book of 203 duotone photographs with Jomari Yllana on the cover. Models include Cesar Alex, Alvin Amposta, Jordan Castro, Andex Cordova, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Junell Liwanag, Chema Marquez, Mark Santos and Raymond Stafford. Models, including Jomari Yllana, had their photos shot on different locations, both indoor and outdoor, wearing only underwear or, for some, nothing at all. I feel lucky to have this rare cofee table book.The foreword in this book written by Butch Francisco (2000) is indeed worth mentioning in setting up the lens for understanding the current trend in the Marketing field in the Philippines.
There are not many sights more provocative than a pair of briefs. Not the new ones crisply pack in plastic, but a pair in use, doing what it does best.
Perhaps this is one good reason why, despite being able to trace back to the Renaissance and to antiquity the nude male body as a sex object, many lens men still prefer photographing men in their
