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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.
Bruce Harry Bellas was born in Alliance, Nebraska on July 7, 1909. [2] [3] He worked as a chemistry teacher there until 1947, [4] when he began photographing bodybuilders in Los Angeles, California, beginning with taking pictures of bodybuilding competitions.
The edition included regular sports coverage. In the bodies section athletes were featured on and off the field. Even a picture during a knee surgery was included. The "Bodies We Want" section was a feature of the best bodies in the world of sports all posed nude but with strategic coverage of private parts. [4]
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]
The cover of a 1958 issue of Lon's physique magazine Male Model Parade, advertised as a "connoisseur album" of his photography. In New York City, Lon met a number of physique photographers, and in the late 1930s was taught the basics of physique photography by Robert Gebhart (who worked under the pseudonym "Gebbé").
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For example, a 1954 issue of Physique Pictorial claimed that the magazine was "planned primarily as an art reference book and is widely used in colleges and private schools throughout the country." [ 12 ] A third alibi, mostly limited to European publications, was a claimed affiliation with the nudist movement.
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 ...