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Physique photography is a tradition of photography of nude or semi-nude (usually muscular) men which was largely popular between the early 20th century and the 1960s. Physique photography originated with the physical culture and bodybuilding movements of the early 20th century, but was gradually co-opted by homosexual producers and consumers ...
Physique Pictorial was a beefcake magazine published by and containing photographs by Bob Mizer of the American Model Guild. Early beefcake magazines like this served as disguised gay pornography, outwardly appearing to be health and fitness magazines but were very different to the intended audience.
Physique Pictorial is an American magazine, one of the leading beefcake magazines of the mid-20th century. [1] [2] During its run from 1951 to 1990 as a quarterly publication, it exemplified the use of bodybuilding culture and classical art figure posing, as a cover for homoerotic male images, and to evade charges of obscenity.
A 1953 issue of Tomorrow's Man, an early physique magazine ostensibly dedicated to health and bodybuilding.. Physique magazines or beefcake magazines were magazines devoted to physique photography — that is, photographs of muscular "beefcake" men – typically young and attractive – in athletic poses, usually in revealing, minimal clothing.
His physique and beefcake photography was credited to his creative pseudonym, Lon of New York. Though Lon was known for a camp demeanour in private, and sometimes photographed drag queens, his physique photography was serious rather than campy, featuring highly masculine models and poses.
Bob Mizer's earliest photographs appeared in 1942, in both color and black and white. He began his photography career apprenticing with former silent film star Frederick Kovert, who operated a physique studio in Hollywood. [3]
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The Athletic Model Guild, or AMG, was a physique photography studio founded by Bob Mizer in December 1945. During those post-war years, United States censorship laws allowed women, but not men, to appear in various states of undress in what were referred to as "art photographs". Mizer began his business by taking pictures of men that he knew.