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Pages in category "Male models from Los Angeles" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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.
He established the influential studio, the Athletic Model Guild (AMG) in 1945, but by the time he published the first issue of Physique Pictorial he was operating the studio on his own at his home near downtown Los Angeles. He photographed thousands of men, building a collection that includes nearly two million different images and thousands of ...
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.
Tom Kelley Sr. (December 12, 1914 – January 8, 1984) was an American photographer who photographed Hollywood celebrities in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his iconic 1949 nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe, which were distributed widely as calendar art—one of which was featured in the inaugural issue of Playboy magazine in 1953.
The L.A.-based artist Adam Davis is touring his "Black Magic" show around the U.S. in his pursuit to make 20,000 tintype portraits of Black Americans.
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.
Pages in category "1953 in Los Angeles" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1953 Pro Bowl; A.