The Sentimental Sailor

Paul Cadmus, The Fleet’s In, 1934

 Otto Dix, The Pleasures of the Mariners, 1923

 Charles Demuth, Dancing sailors, 1918

 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gene Kelly in dream ballet for the movie "On the Town.", 1949

 Alfred Eisenstaedt, A jubilant American sailor on Times Square to celebrate the victory over Japan, 1945

 Weegee, New York City, 1950

 Lisette Model, Sammy’s, New York, 1940

 Herbert Dombrowski, Der Matrose, Hamburg 1956

 Robert Doisneau, Dream Girls, 1952

 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Coney Island, New York, 1946

 At Ease

 Pierre et Gilles

 Pierre et Gilles

 Pierre et Gilles

 Three Smart Girls

 Shore Leave

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Walt Cessna

Sean Connery at the peak of physical health in 1967

Jack Nicholson in "The Last Detail"

Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier's inspiration for nautical sailor stripes comes from a recollection of his childhood, when his mother dressed him in sailor stripes. Gaultier was also influenced by Querelle de Brest, a film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1982) based on the novel by Jean Genet.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle

To screw you, handsome adventurous cabin-boy
as the muscular sailors get hard beneath their pants
my love, my love, will you steal the keys
which will open for me
the sky of trembling masts? 

Jean Genet

 Tom of Finland

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 Boris Mikhailov, From the series “Luriki”, c. 1980

 Kozyndan 

 Charles Fenno Jacobs, Much-inked American sailors aboard the battleship USS New Jersey, 1944

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 Margaret Bourke-White, French Navy, Casablanca 1943

 Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich, ca 1945

 Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

 David Bowie

 Frank Paulin, The Strange One, NYC 1956

 Herbert List, Vittorio de Sica #1 - Naples - 1961

 Royal Canadian Navy

 North Korean Navy Girls

 North American Navy Boys

 Helmar Lerski, Ship Boilerman, bef. 1929

 Otto Griebel, Ship Boilerman, 1920

 Georg Scholz, The Sentimental Sailor, 1921

 Hans Bellmer, Marseille, 1932

 Paul Kleinschmidt,  Le Pont de Trinquetaille bei Arles, 1929

 Otto Dix, Exotic Brothel, 1922

 George Grosz - Matrose im Nachtlokal, 1925

 André Dignimont, Bar, c. 1935

 Marcel Ronay, Sailor and Girl, 1929

 Marcel Ronay, New Ron, c. 1930

 Eugene Jansson, In Navy Bathing Hut, 1907

 Alexei Pakhomov, Bathing of Red Army Sailors Plummeting from a Ship, 1933

 Cagnaccio di San Pietro, L'alzana, 1935

 Paul Cadmus, Sailors and Floosies, 1938

 George Tooker, Self-Portrait, 1947

 Björn Andrésen in Visconti's Death in Venice

 Felice Casorati, La famiglia Consolaro Girelli, 1916

 Ernst Weise, The Siblings at the Baltic Sea, 1915

 Josef Maria Auchentaller, Portrait of Peter, 1906

 Alan Villiers, Crewman with his model of the 'Parma', 1932–33

 Buster Keaton (The Navigator)

 Carlo Sbisà, Il palombaro, 1931

 Leonid Tishkov, Mom's bought a beautiful bow for her little girl, 1997

 Johannes Grützke, The Farewell of the Mariner, 2007

 Wolfgang Tillmans, Lutz & Alex Schwanzgriff, 1992

 Tom Sanford, The Somali Pirates vs. The USS Bainbridge, 2010

 Hernan Bas, Floating in the Dead Sea with Ghost Ship Pirated by Hedi Slimane, 2003

 Hilary Harkness, Iowa Class, 2003

The GAVY

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