Daniel Wenger on Bob Mizer, who found the first gay magaze the U.S., Physique Pictorial, and specialized photographg buff young men.
Contents:
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- MAN TO MAN: A HISTORY OF GAY PHOTOGRAPHY (MALE PHOTOGRAPHY)
- THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
- MAN HISTORY GAY PHOTOGRAPHY (11 RULTS)
- MAN TO MAN: A HISTORY OF GAY PHOTOGRAPHY (MALE PHOTOGRAPHY)
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
Man to Man: A History of Gay Photography (Male Photography) * man to man a history of gay photography *
“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s. Gay Rights,.
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* man to man a history of gay photography *
Synopsis: This volume is the first prehensive study of homoeroticism and male homosexualy the history of photography. Author Pierre Borhan provis a fast-paced overviw of the prcipal them of neteenth- and twentieth-century homoerotic to Man puts photography ma by, for, and of homosexuals to historil perspective.
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Man to Man a History of Gay Photography. Book tracg the history of gay photography om 1840 2006.
THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
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A tremendo book on many levels pecially for the great array of homoerotic photographs, by many amo photographers along wh anonymo sourc. His notn of gayns was rmed by a “Co of Behavr” that he rerd his high-school diary: “More mascule at all tim. ” Among his mols were the gay and the straight, profsnal bodybuilrs and profsnal beach bums, llege stunts and returne om the European ont.
But there’s jt as much reason to nsir Mizer the gay Hugh Hefner—a tirels llector of physil specimens.
In 1951, he found what is generally nsired the untry’s origal gay magaze, Physique Pictorial, and would ntue publishg for nearly four s**. ** In the magaze’s early years he clud no explic referenc to gay inty, though he thored d edorials agast the hypocrisi of the straight world.
MAN HISTORY GAY PHOTOGRAPHY (11 RULTS)
Although gays had long been si-eyeg the emblems of straight masculy, Mizer fed them wh new meang: the very men who had looked stoic and impassive the straight magaz seemed, unr Mizer’s directn, to be havg fun. When David Hurl, the gay pornographer and Mizer protégé, was a teen-ager Ccnati, he glimpsed Physique Pictorial_ _at a newsstand and felt, as he put to Taschen, “stantly clud, as if the men were beckong him to look. ” It appealed, Coat wrote, “to the sick half-world of homosexuals, sadists, and masochists.
“Homosexualy was the standard way of life among the gged Greek warrrs, ” he wrote 1960.
MAN TO MAN: A HISTORY OF GAY PHOTOGRAPHY (MALE PHOTOGRAPHY)
” Dpe such objectns, he reportedly ma a fortune the eighti by distributg so-lled “ssn vios, ” rerdgs of photo shoots that then veered to more recreatnal Mizer’s Greek-warrr fixatn, ’s temptg to thk of him as one early source of the “body fascism” for which ntemporary gay-male culture is often maligned.