The Photoplay
Portraits of celebrated (and unheralded) people
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S 5
…Anthony Caesar, Forrester Millard, and Howard Olsen offer viewers a range of options: mostly lithe, well-built, not yet muscle-bound. Several are beautiful; others are stalwart and solid. They represent their era, one of possibility, of youth, at once carefree and yet scarcely free of the last war.
S 3
Fewer than twenty years separate these images from silent films, and of course popular culture was particularly engaged with dance, modern or otherwise. So athletes, bodybuilders, dancers — they all trooped into photo studios to be memorialized.
S 2
What was Bob Mizer trying to accomplish with this group of models, with these interiors, published in this order? I think he was playing with lighting, with pose, with expression and stance — a kind of movement in still pictures. This was the age of “art pictures” — wink, wink. But Athletic Model Guild photos from this first year of production do, in fact, function as art pictures, suitable for artists to use in lieu of live models.
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