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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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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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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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While serving in World War II, Don Whitman developed a friendship with a fellow sailor who related his experiences of modeling and posing for...
Daniel Wenger of the New Yorker magazine writes:
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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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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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It’s Raining Men: Two volumes and two decades of top physique models
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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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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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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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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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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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H. Lynn Womack was at a turning point in his young life.
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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...
