Kenn Duncan Day III

A small, but steady, stream of Kenn Duncan photos have shown up on the resale market in the 

past year or so, and today we will look at some of those, plus some I already had.

 

Jean Leclerc

An online auction offered both these versions of Jean Leclerc.  I suppose Mr. Duncan used different production methods because the cropping and the brightness are noticeably unlike one another.

 

Angles

Lots of interesting angles in this one.

 

David Vance

This is David Vance from 1975.

 

Rare Color

This is one of only two color photos I have found attributed to Kenn Duncan, 

and the other one is of the same model.  I'm glad he stuck to black and white.

 

Bill Cable

Even with his pants on, Bill Cable looks mighty fine.

 

Pose

The pose here is interesting, and I like the way the floor and the 

backdrop wall appear to seamlessly flow together.

 

Exceptional lighting

The lighting in this one works in all the right places.

 

Fashion

Kenn Duncan had success as a fashion photographer, and this is what passed for men's fashion 

in the early 1970s.  The magazine in which it appeared called it "cowboy hippie,"

but the reasonably attractive models look like neither.

 

A favorite

Despite the lack of a "money shot," this is one of my farovite Kenn Duncan photos.  

I love the visible body hair and the way it combines masculinity with gracefulness.

I only wish I knew who the fantastic model is.

 

Dancer

The final photo in our Kenn Duncan set is an unknown (to me, anyway) dancer.

 

Kenn Duncan

It's been almost six years since I did a series on the work of Kenn Duncan, and that's too long.  If you notice a similarity in his work and that of Roy Blakey, consider that they both had backgrounds in ice skating and drew from model pools that included a lot of dancers and cabaret performers.  In fact, Mr. Duncan was a successful dancer himself after moving on from skating.  We'll start with a photo that shows a clear parallel with Mr. Blakey's work and then move on to other styles.

 

Light and shadows

The light and shadows work wonderfully together in this photo.

 

Alexander Godunov

Kenn Duncan convinced ballet dancer Alexander Godunov to pose nude, but not frontally.

 

Contorted

This model did a whole series of photos for Kenn Duncan in which he appears to have been 

contorted to various degrees.  This is one of those which is less so.

 

Duo

Mr. Duncan made a number of photographs of nude male duos and trios in which no genitalia 

were shown.  Most of them were still on the erotic or suggestive side, however.

 

Bill Cable

This Kenn Duncan photo of Bill Cable appeared in After Dark magazine.

I have to say it's one of the best I've seen of Bill, and original prints

are fetching high prices on vintage resale websites.

 

Over the shoulder

Maybe it was the Fourth of July when Kenn Duncan 

photographed this unknown (to me, anyway) model.

 

Jason Roberts

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Little Joe in a Box

I'm more convinced than ever that Joe Dallesandro was photographed by just about every professional photographer active in the 1970s.  Kenn Duncan put him in a box for this one.