CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/12/2021

Gay Pride Gold in 'Tom of Finland: Made in Germany'

“Hamburg Ahoi!” (1980) is reproduced from Tom of Finland: Made in Germany, Skira’s eye-popping 176-page compendium of early drawings by the legendary creator of some of the most iconic homoerotic images, worldwide, of all time—who spent several formative years in 1970s Hamburg en route from his eponymous birthplace to the more sexually-liberated climes of Los Angeles. Featuring 150 extremely graphic illustrations—this one being the proverbial tip of the iceberg—alongside highly researched texts and a facsimile of a 1955 travel diary from the artist’s earlier trip to Germany, this is a book that neatly straddles high art, scholarship and historic gay pornography.