The Modern Kids
ISBN-13: 9783868286328
Author(s): Jona Frank
Subjects: AJ
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Publisher Imprint: Kehrer Verlag
Publication Date: 21-09-2015
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£25.00
About the book
In the fall of 2010, Jona Frank began to make portraits at an amateur boxing club just outside of Liverpool in a suburb called Ellesmere Port. All the boys tried to act tough for the camera and Frank was reminded of a line from the Arcade Fire song Rococo, 'they seem wild but they are so tame.' In these images boys appear shirtless and sweaty, their hands covered with big, puffy, colourful gloves. What is demonstrated is that masculinity and vulnerability are not opposites.