Frederick Bousquet Models Gold Body Suit In Rome, Ricky Berens Stays Covered-Up Wins Gold, A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To Joe DiMaggio Nude

Frederick Bousquet, last seen on my blog offering a full frontal web camera portrait of him nude, competes at the 2009 FINA World Championships Friday in Rome, wearing a full piece gold lame body suit that left little to the imagination, not that the twenty-eight year French swimmer is at all hard on the eyes, because he is not. No, no he is not.

The United States men’s swim team, led by Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, David Walters, and the bare butted Ricky Berens, captured gold Friday in the 800 meter free style, at the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, breaking a world record. Unfortunately, Berens did not suffer a wardrobe malfunction.

An exhibition at San Francisco gallery Modernism features a full frontal black and white nude of Joe DiMaggio, taken in a postgame shower probably around 1940. The photograph was taken anonymously, is part of series titled Hunted and Gathered, and is on view until August 29th, and is available here.