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Kickstarter campaign aims to build publication’s team
The Foundation, dedicated to the preservation and promotion of masculinity in photography, recently announced the relaunch of Bob Mizer’s flagship...
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Mizer known for his lengthy responses to readers’ letters
The editors of most magazines welcome letters to the editor, allowing readers to praise, question or criticize editorial decisions made by the...
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Character analysis revealed the core of Mizer's models
To the uninitiated, the symbols may as well have well been Egyptian hieroglyphics – clusters of arrows, circles, squares, squiggly lines, and...
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Behind the Lens: The Life and Times of Bob Mizer (Part II)
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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Magazines provided risky outlet of desire for closeted gay men
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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Magazine used as sounding board for Mizer's social commentary
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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Physique Pictorial in The 1980s
Where it was once a reflection of a lively industry, filled with work from a slew of international contributors, Physique Pictorial had become a...
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Physique Pictorial, The Disco Years
Porn, cocaine and disco – these mainstays of the 1970s had America horny, hyper and ready to dance. And while they may have collectively peaked...
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Physique Pictorial in the Swinging ’60s
The 1960s brought on the rise of the quaalude, the creation of the key party and the discovery of those precocious Brits, the Beatles. For those...
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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....
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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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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...