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Physique photography. A 1950 photograph from physique studio Athletic Model Guild. Physique models were commonly photographed in "posing straps", the G-string -style undergarment worn here. 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 ...
Physique photographer Lon of New York published his own magazine, Male Model Parade, which was essentially a catalogue for his studio. Bob Mizer's Physique Pictorial, founded in 1951, is widely regarded as the first in the tradition of physique magazines targeted to a gay audience, and also the first magazine of any kind in the US to target gay ...
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. In 1956, Bellas launched his own magazine, The Male Figure.
Los Angeles, California, U.S. Known for. Photography, film. Website. bobmizer .org. Robert Henry Mizer (March 27, 1922 – May 12, 1992) [1] was an American photographer and filmmaker, known for pushing boundaries of depicting male homoerotic content with his work in the mid 20th century. [2]
A 1954 cover photo of Tomorrow's Man taken by Warner. Russ Warner (1917–2004) was an American physique photographer. His photographs of bodybuilders appeared widely in physique and bodybuilding magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. His photography studio was initially located in Oakland California; he later relocated to the Los Angeles area.
John S. Barrington (1920–1991) [1] was a British physique photographer and publisher. Barrington's photos of nude or semi-nude men appeared widely in British and American physique magazines, sometimes under the pseudonym John Paignton. [1] Barrington published many of his own physique magazines, including Male Model Monthly, the first in Britain.
Athletic Model Guild. 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 ...
643902464. 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.