Sam Carson: First Exposure

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Summary: View these full color images in the order presented!
Review: Don't look ahead the first time through this wonderful photo collection!These smoothe young men all brought a sixpack and many showoff their name brand undies but watchout for that center-spread and the photos thereafter. They are meant to pleasure the viewer. Sam Carson is a well known California architect and clearly appreciates the male form and function. Let's hope there is a second exposure and a third and....

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Summary: Mouth-watering eye candy ... and great photography!
Review: Man oh man! What a book! The young men are stunning, and the photography is superb. Whether you are a woman or a man, if you enjoy looking at beautiful, nude young men, this book is for you! And Amazon has it for a great price.

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Summary: An excellent collection of gorgeous men
Review: Sam Carson works as an architect in Los Angeles, which must have given him the penetrating eye for beauty that he shows here. That he can produce something this good on his first foray into photography is a rebuke to established gay eroticists (David Morgan, Jeff Palmer, Howard Roffman and Steven Underhill). For this book, Carson has selected a dazzling array of men who all have one thing in common: they are beautiful, muscular men who no one in their right mind would kick out of bed. There are a fair share of nudes in this collection, but what Carson demonstrates best is that designer underwear and tight Speedos can be every bit as hot as full frontal nudity, though once again, this book contains a good amount of penises. I hope Carson publishes another book soon, but until then these boys will have to do. The only flaw is that there are only 80 pages, but overall, this book proved to me that there's more to gay photography than Bel Ami.

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Summary: What's Not To Like Here?
Review: The men are young, handsome, built well, and all appear to be having a good time in this book of color photographs by Sam Carson. Much has been made that this is the first book of this sort by Carson who is an architect by profession although apparently he has been doing this kind of photography for sometime. Additionally, all the models are amateurs and doing this for the first time. Hence the title FIRST EXPOSURE. It shouldn't be a great leap, however, to go from designing well-constructed, beautiful buildings to photographing well-built beautiful bodies. After all, f stops and apertures can be learned by taking a class or picking up a camera manual; people with a photographer's eye are born, not taught.

About half the models here are nude; the others, just as fetching, are advertisements for all the brands of men's underwear. Some of the companies represented here should pay Mr. Carson a fee for all this free publicity.

Almost all these stunning photographs appear to be shot in natural light. No strobe light will ever light a photograph as beautifully as nature does.

There isn't a mediocre photograph in the entire collection here. Finally, thank you, Mr. Carson, for not telling us what we are seeing. There is not one word of description or explanation about any of the photographs. Nor do we need any.

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Summary: Electric!
Review: What happens when a well known architect with a penchant for photography and an ability to get San Diego's most buff and beautiful young men to strip for his camera, gets a publishing deal? Well, you get this unusual, erotically charged collection of stunning photographs!

Sam Carson, a well-known architect from California, has been taking photos of young men in San Diego for many years now. He uses amateur models who have never posed for anyone before. He succeeds impressively in capturing these personal moments