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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.
Lon's photos were widely featured in popular physique magazines, and he published several magazines of his own: Men and Art, Male Pix, Star Models, and Male Model Parade. [11] His work is largely to be considered one of the pioneers of physique photography.
Mizer was repeatedly targeted by authorities in relation to his trade in photographs and film. In 1945, he was visited by US postal inspectors, who searched his room and found "dirty pictures", but he avoided prosecution. Mizer was investigated again in 1947 after a man told police that Mizer had sold him nude photographs.
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 ...
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.
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Hugh Robert Turvey was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, the first child of Rodney and Patricia Turvey. [2] He studied at Swindon Art College (1989–1990) and the Royal Berkshire College of Art and Design (1990–1992), before enrolling at Blackpool and The Fylde College, [3] in Lancashire, to study photography (1992–1994).
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.