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Beefcake From Across the Pond, Part II: God Save the Queens
Author’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on the history of physique culture in Great Britain. Look for part III on our blog on Tuesday, December 27.
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Beefcake from across the pond: The male physique in Britain, part I
Author’s note: This is the first in a three-part series on the history of physique culture in Great Britain. Look for part II on our blog on Tuesday,...
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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...
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...
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...