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Although most followers of media law are familiar with the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1968 ruling in Ginsburg v. New York that nudity in art could not be ruled obscene, one court case in the late 1960s also had the attention of male physique...
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Author’s note: This is the fourth and final part of a four-part series designed to introduce the novice to photographer and filmmaker Bob Mizer. Part...
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Author’s note: This is the third part of a four-part series designed to introduce the novice to photographer and filmmaker Bob Mizer. We will post a...
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Author’s note: This is the second part of a four-part series designed to introduce the novice to photographer and filmmaker Bob Mizer. We will post a...
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Author’s note: This is the first of a four-part series designed to introduce the novice to photographer and filmmaker Bob Mizer. We will post a new...
“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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Unlike obese men nicknamed ‘Slim’ or tall men nicknamed ‘Shorty,’ Abbye Eville’s nickname in childhood was anything but ironic.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, there existed a group of men who were both excited and fearful when they made the trek to the mailbox every day.
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When the neighbors watched Delia Mizer and her precocious 5-year-old son Bob move into the Victorian house at 1834 W. 11th St. in Los Angeles in...
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It’s easy to overlook Delia Mizer’s role in the early days of Bob Mizer’s career. But any out gay man who was once closeted and living in fear of his...
Mother’s death created quite a jolt for all of us, though we had all expected it. The first few days found me going into tears several times, but...
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Ben McNutt is a young photographer who focuses his camera on one of Bob's favorite subjects, wrestling. As a student at the Maryland Institute...
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True followers of Bob Mizer’s “Physique Pictorial” know that the publication was more than just a menagerie of pretty faces and toned bodies – it was...
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While his mainstream counterparts in the art world were being trained in some of the world’s finest art institutes and honing their craft in sterile...
"Depression can occur after heavy eating & is only momentarily relieved by eating. Lack of ambition is brought on by overstuffed gut—Only cure for...
