12-03-2025, 02:09 PM
The majority of books that contain images use them to pad out the text; here it's the opposite. The images are the point, and the text is padding.
Ortil was a very talented photographer, there can be no doubt of that. He used it to good effect in several naturist books and magazines, as well as contributing to publications such as PAN Magazine and Magpie.
This slim volume contains a large number of images of naked youth, with a slight lean towards boys, and the accompanying text, presumably by Ortil himself, associates the pictured activities with Pan, the god of Nature and male fertility.
Genres: Photography; Naturism; Nude photography; Childhood and adolescence
Pages: 61 (hardback); 113 (edited PDF)
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There are two PDFs here. The first is that sent to me by Edmund Marlowe, the second is my edit of that file.
Edmund generously sent me this a couple of weeks ago, and my gratitude to him comes with an apology for not posting it here more promptly. I played around with it to see if I could make both text and images clearer, but ended up back with the original - where the images are clearer than the text, and my edit, where the text is clearer but the images worse. It would take a more skilled operator to combine the virtues of each into a single file, so I've posted them both. The 113-page version simply has pages split to view them one at a time instead of two.