Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero

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The only fully authorized biography of Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991), completed with the artist's Foundation and drawing on interviews conducted shortly before his death. F. Valentine Hooven III's 295-page account, with a foreword by Jean Paul Gaultier, traces how Laaksonen's work shaped a generation of queer visual art, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Bruce Weber.

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