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If the first issue of the upcoming Physique Pictorial relaunch is your introduction to Bob Mizer’s pocket-sized ode to beefcake, don’t worry – it’s never too late to learn about the history behind one of male physique photography’s most revered...
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Though male physique photography pioneer Bob Mizer set out to define masculinity in post-war America, his idea of the perfect male body was a...
This week: Kelly Moore “...when Kelly was living in a sumptuous home in the Hollywood Hills, he became angry at the owner, tore up his room and...
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If you still enjoy hardcore gay porn (and we’re betting you do), you have Nova Studios to thank in part.
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The models in Bob Mizer’s later photos frolicked, wrestled, and sneered amid backdrops and set designs that were a world away from the scenery that...
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While Bob Mizer was scouting California’s Muscle Beach, in search for the pinnacle of grinning, flexing pictures of masculinity, there were other men...
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If it weren’t for Bob Mizer, Harry Bush’s immense talent – and the bitterness and anger boiling underneath the hand that created stunning images of...
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Author’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on the history of Champion Studio and its founder, Walter Kundzicz.
