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michael stokes

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Columnist lays bare our fascination with men in uniform

In recent pilferings through the internet's vast and varied collection in the genre of men in uniform, seeing the fetishized and erotic portrayals of...

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Images feature nude soldiers at play during WWII

While Bob Mizer was scouting California’s Muscle Beach, in search for the pinnacle of grinning, flexing pictures of masculinity, there were other men...

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Michael Stokes: Photographer’s lens captures beauty of wounded heroes

One L.A.-based photographer has literally stripped bare the stigma of injured veterans who return home from the battlefront.

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