Tom Bianchi (born 1945) is an American writer and photographer who specializes in male nude photography.
His 21 books of photographs, poems, and essays primarily cover the gay male experience.
[1] In 1990, St. Martin's Press published Out of the Studio, Bianchi's book of male nudes, frankly gay and affectionally connected.
He practiced corporate law for ten years in Chicago and Washington, D.C. At thirty-four, he left his position as senior counsel at Columbia Pictures, tore up his J.D.
degree, pasted it into a painting and had his first one-man show with Betty Parsons and Carol Dreyfuss in New York.