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Physique Pictorial Model Shot by LAPD

It seems the LAPD, that stronghold of racial profiling and police brutality, has been playing fast and loose with its night stick for decades now. Sure, we’ve all heard of Rodney King, but what of the victims that came before? Case in point, former...

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Before American Apparel & Dov Charney, There Was Delia Mizer & AMG

Since we’re on a bit of a fashion kick this week, we thought we’d draw attention to some rather fashionable drawers – underwear, that is. When AMG...

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Old Reliable Update: David Hurles & John Waters in NYC

Raging hard-ons, sketchy prison tattoos, and junkies, junkies, junkies – they have all been represented in contemporary art, but never like this....

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Your Guide to the Perfect Summer Look – AMG S/S 2010

A little over a year ago, we received a request from the illustrious men’s magazine, BUTT, for a set of fully clothed models from the Bob Mizer...

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Therapeutic Beefcake – Physique Pictorial, Fall 1954

Bob Mizer was a genius, though quirky, photographer, but it’s his writing that proves what a truly bizarre man he was. The short political rants, the...

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Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Peltier & Bob Mizer?

It should come as no surprise that the fashion industry has once again mined the visual language of physique photography’s past to sell over-priced...

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Bob Mizer on: Sexual Mores

“Whereas many expressions are now accepted which would never have been tolerated in Victorian times, and each generation demands increasingly greater...

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Bob Mizer on: Big Brother

“Big Brother believes it is essential to tell you and me what is suitable for us to read and see—-apparently we lack the wisdom and discernment and...

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Bob Mizer on: Prejudice

"The lower down the social scale we go, the more virulent forms of prejudice are we able to discover, and the more ignorant are the excuses given to...

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Bob Mizer on: Censorship

“It is an assault to the dignity of man and his creator to treat any portion of the body as something shameful and disgusting.”

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Bob Mizer on: Joe Dallesandro

“He listed his occupation as “short order cook,” said he was also a dishwasher, and his greatest ambition was to own his own Italian restaurant.”

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Bob Mizer on: The Advent of Hardcore

“Apparently that previously starved public is like a collective alcoholic which has made all of its taste-buds so overstimulated that even massive...

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Bob Mizer on: “Hygiene for the Mouth”

“In addition to outside bathing, colonics and douches for the trunk orifices, have you considered the value of regularly washing the inside of the...

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Did Rock Hudson Pose For AMG?

Yes, but probably not the Rock Hudson you’re thinking of.

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Bodybuilder, Armand Tanny’s death marks the End of an Era

Sixty-years ago, Bob Mizer was a young photographer, getting his start on the Muscle Beach circuit. Before beefcake and pornography, before steroids...

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Under Pressure, Beefcake Surveillance and Physique Pictorial

"Even the most timorous feels that if he will stay in his own home and mind his own business, that there at least he will be snug and secure. But...

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