{"product_id":"dont-worry-boys","title":"Stanley Stellar – Don’t Worry Boys","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA riotous, unflinching survey of one of New York’s most cherished gay underground photographers, \u003cem\u003eDon’t Worry Boys\u003c\/em\u003e finds Stanley Stellar at his most exuberant and layered, through an extensive reappraisal of his archives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Brooklyn native, Stellar picked up a camera in 1976 and pointed it, almost immediately, at his own community: the West Village, Christopher Street, the abandoned piers that served for a few short years as a sunbathing ground, a cruising ground, a stage. Here, Stellar developed a vernacular language that carries both a pornographer’s frankness and a documentarian’s patience; a regular contributor to the literary Christopher Street magazine, the gay newspaper New York Native and the panoply of queer flesh magazines of the time, Stellar contains a high-low fluency that gives his work a grit and a candour most of his contemporaries never risked. Against the gritty background of New York in its most unkempt and precarious, sex is everywhere and unapologetic: men frolicking and screwing in full daylight, skimpy clothing leaving little to the imagination, balanced against a natural, authentic record of Stellar’s milieu through intense, unguarded portraiture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat candour reaches its peak in the studio portraits made during the throes of the AIDS crisis which explore the nuances of gay experience, between introspection and exhibition. Of the hundreds of men who sat for Stellar in that period, only a small handful are still here to tell it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDon’t Worry Boys\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes its title from a real, semi-mythical New York social club, an invitation, once, to a refuge where desire and survival held each other in fragile balance, and the book inherits that same charge, riotous and tender in the same breath, never separating the body’s pleasure from its vulnerability.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInitiated and edited by Jordan Hancock as a reappraisal of the two decades that shaped Stellar's further career, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDon’t Worry Boys\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reaffirms Stellar’s place inside the canon of artists who documented this critical chapter of gay culture, while refusing to flatten its subject into either celebration or elegy, building joy directly inside its own grief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStanley Stellar (b. 1945, Brooklyn, NY) is a photographer celebrated for his intimate documentation of queer life in New York City. Over five decades, Stellar’s lens has captured the beauty, fear, and love of the LGBT community — from the Christopher Street Piers and the first Gay Pride Parades to couples navigating the HIV\/AIDS epidemic. His photography has been exhibited in galleries across the U.S. and Europe, featured on 26 international magazine covers, and discussed in more than a dozen anthologies. His monograph \u003cem\u003eThe Beauty of All Men, Photographs 1976–2011\u003c\/em\u003e was published by All Saints Press. He lives and works in Manhattan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJordan Hancock is a New York-based creative agent and co-founder of the representation agency, Second Name. Through Second Name he nurtures emerging talent and manages some of the most influential artists working in fashion today. Outside of the commercial sphere, Jordan is an advocate for contemporary photography and queer history. He has lectured at The New School and Central Saint Martins and has served on the jury of the Hyeres International Festival of Photography. Hancock has consulted on books for Aperture, Loose Joints and Baron.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ul1\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(241, 14, 14);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e192pp, 45 colour and 55 duotone plates, 219 × 290 mm,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003eSection-sewn debossed quarterbound hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eDesigned by LJ Studio\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eEdited by Jordan Hancock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eText by Andrew Holleran\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublished by Loose Joints\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eLJ227, September 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eISBN 978-1-912719-80-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(241, 14, 14);\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ul1\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003ePre-order now and save 10% OFF! 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