Publisher/Heretic Books

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"Younger Days" is a photobook by British photographer Ian David Baker. Set against the backdrop of London in the 1970s and 80s, Baker has pursued intimate and delicate photographic expression through his portraits and nudes of men. His work, deeply connected to British gay culture and youth culture, captures the beauty of the male body while simultaneously revealing the inner lives of his subjects and the unstable emotions unique to adolescence. This book introduces Baker's photographic world through monochrome images. The melancholic expression of a young man smoking a cigarette, his defenseless gestures, his body bathed in natural light—the beauty residing in unadorned moments of everyday life is depicted with soft shadows and an intimate sense of distance. The foreword is written by Emmanuel Cooper, a ceramic artist, art critic, and researcher of the history of homosexual culture. More than just a celebration of male beauty, this is a poetic collection of portraits that quietly captures the loneliness and longing of youth and the atmosphere of the era.