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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.
Grecian Guild Pictorial was an American physique magazine published from 1955 until 1968. While ostensibly dedicated to art, health, and exercise, like other physique magazines of the time, it was understood that, in practice, its homoerotic photography and illustrations were almost exclusively created by and for gay men.
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 ...
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.
X-ray analysis revealed alterations to the paint of a sixteenth century portrait that had been identified as a Bronzino portrait of Eleanor of Toledo at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After a conservation treatment, which removed the added paint, the subject of the portrait was found to be Isabella de' Medici. The ...
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Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo at the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca. Álvarez Bravo's photography career spanned from the late 1920s to the 1990s. It formed in the decades after the Mexican Revolution (1920s to 1950s) when there was significant creative output in the country, much of it sponsored by the government wanting to promote a new Mexican identity based on both modernity and ...