Bob Mizer Foundation

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To All the Boys We've Loved Before: Foundation staff members discuss their favorite models

The difference between a mere appreciation of a Bob Mizer model and one that catches your eye every time you see him splashed across a page is all in the details.

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Beverly Hills Taschen Book Signing Photos

Bob Mizer Foundation volunteer Art Adams shot these photos at the recent 1000 Model Directory book signing in Beverly Hills. Those pictured include...

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Setting the record straight on 'Beefcake'

There's plenty to enjoy about the very first full-length film about Bob Mizer -- but there's plenty of misinformation to address, too.

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FOCUS ON Western Photography Guild

While serving in World War II, Don Whitman developed a friendship with a fellow sailor who related his experiences of modeling and posing for...

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The Obsessive Photographer Behind America's First Gay Magazine

Daniel Wenger of the New Yorker magazine writes:

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Focus On: Photographer Mikel Marton

The Bob Mizer Foundation is dedicated to recognizing and promoting artists from all walks of life and in all disciplines, and we place a special...

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State of the Archive: Scanning the Mizer Estate

A concerned member of the Foundation wrote us in regard to the scanning of the Mizer negatives. He was thinking that these negatives must be scanned...

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NEW BOOK! BOB MIZER: AMG's 1000 MODEL DIRECTORY

It’s Raining Men: Two volumes and two decades of top physique models

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State of The Archive: June 2016

I've been wanting to write this post for quite awhile now. It should have been a simple update to our current project cataloging about 700,000...

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Bodybuilder led to birth of gym culture in America

Before the models of Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild redefined masculinity to a puritanical American audience, there was the original ‘strong man,’...

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Mizer photographed friends who brought magic to rich and poor alike during colorful career

As soup lines grew, the content of wallets shrank and the country reeled from the Great Depression, one boy made it his mission to make Americans...

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Author’s lover among those who violated obscenity laws

They were truly everyman – mostly unknown, private figures whose lives were turned upside down with the opening of a package. Maybe it was a male...

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Mattachine Society signaled rise of modern gay liberation movement

Before the Grecian Guild beckoned closeted gay men to meet one another and engage in cathartic discussions about their deepest desires, there was the...

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Grecian Guild built sense of community for gay men

H. Lynn Womack was at a turning point in his young life.

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Warhol films celebrated beauty of the mundane

At the same time photographer and filmmaker Bob Mizer’s empire expanded and embraced nudity in front of the lens at his L.A. compound, on the other...

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