There are some appealing but relatively tame photographs from one of the doyens of male physique photography from the ss in this posting. More interesting to me are the photographs that never get published or shown in a gallery. While visiting The Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana as part of my PhD research Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male in I made a list of all the physique photographers present in their collection, as well as annotated notes on the photographs of Baron von Gloeden , George Platt Lynes , male homosexual catalogue photographs , male homosexual photographs and male2male sex photographs.
Unfortunately almost nothing of this amazing collection of photographs at The Kinsey has ever been published, mainly I suspect due to the prudish nature of American society. Read my notes from The Kinsey on these photographers. Bob Mizer set up AMG in to photograph male bodybuilders and it is now the oldest male model photography studio in the United States of America.
All models in the photographs that I studied were well built, smooth, toned. Lots of outdoor shots! Models are usually quite young approx. Tiny waists and v shaped. For example Image No. Total V shape. Lots of erotic wrestling photographs from AMG as well.
Although not showing nudes in publications such as Physique Pictorial, private photographs by Bob Mizer heavily feature nudity. Wide use made of projected backdrops β abstracts, leaves, mountains, ships, classical Roman ruins.
The Annotations on back of both size images tell of the models jobs and sexual orientation and what they will or will not do sexually if known. It is interesting to note that these annotations are usually the only thing that places the physical bodies in a social context. The studio shots really have no context while the outdoor shots have slightly more context.
