{"product_id":"cult-of-boys-androgyny-intimacy-icon","title":"Cult of Boys — Androgyny, Intimacy, Icon","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"576\"\u003eThis photobook by Toyin Ibidapo, \u003cem data-start=\"146\" data-end=\"160\"\u003eCult of Boys\u003c\/em\u003e, published by teNeues in 2011, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it distills a particular vision of masculinity rarely seen in contemporary portraiture — intimate, androgynous, and unguarded. Ibidapo’s lens focuses on a generation of boys not yet hardened by performance. Many are musicians, artists, drifters, dressed in eyeliner or nothing at all, their gaze fixed somewhere between seduction and fragility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"578\" data-end=\"1099\"\u003eThe work evokes the spirit of youth scenes — glam, punk, indie — but subtracts the noise, the pose, the stage. What remains is a quiet eroticism: boys as muse, as self-invention, as archetype. Tim Walker’s foreword situates the book in the lineage of subcultural glamour, but it’s Ibidapo’s own photographic language — soft grain, bare skin, shadows like fabric — that builds its world. \u003cem data-start=\"965\" data-end=\"979\"\u003eCult of Boys\u003c\/em\u003e belongs in the archive as a visual thesis on the shifting codes of gender, beauty, and style in the early 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1101\" data-end=\"1120\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1101\" data-end=\"1120\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1122\" data-end=\"1466\"\u003eTitle: Cult of Boys\u003cbr data-start=\"1141\" data-end=\"1144\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Toyin Ibidapo\u003cbr data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1177\"\u003eForeword: Tim Walker\u003cbr data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1200\"\u003eDate: 2011\u003cbr data-start=\"1210\" data-end=\"1213\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Colour offset printing\u003cbr data-start=\"1264\" data-end=\"1267\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover\u003cbr data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1299\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eDimensions: Approx. 25 x 32 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1332\"\u003ePages: Unspecified\u003cbr data-start=\"1350\" data-end=\"1353\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: teNeues Verlag GmbH + Co. KG\u003cbr data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1404\"\u003eISBN: 978-3-8327-9531-3\u003cbr data-start=\"1427\" data-end=\"1430\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1447\" data-end=\"1450\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52475598078290,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_c4200294-c252-463e-b599-ea013e9c2239.jpg?v=1768387351","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/cult-of-boys-androgyny-intimacy-icon","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}