Sequel

Mock fight 4

Mock fight 3

Assets

Mock fight 2

Bad cropping

Mock fight

Red shift

Nude with ax

POV

Mysteries with color

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What a difference a year makes. Or five.

I recently acquired this Russ Warner group (also attributed to Stanford St. George), and the 8 x 10 named the sitters on the reverse: Lang & Suitro.

I had seen the photo in an early issue of Physique Pictorial, and there I found the image in the November 1951 number … except that they were given as Bill Parker and Johnny Travis in Warner’s Group B-10.

I later found it shown in the Spring 1957 issue, showing them as John Lang and Bill Suitro and thus agreeing with the (presumably original to the studio) text on the reverse.

I’ve since found them as Bill Barker and Bill Berker; Travis’s name remains stable!

Here are the others…

One could argue that this reads Lane and (certainly) Sutro. 

A boy and his pool furniture

Shaded poolside

Rocky hillside

Mount Mizer with goat and guest

Poolside

Some more mysteries

ZI 10

ZH 11

ZH 7

ZG 160

ZG 66

Morrisey

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Preston vs. Henderson

Riley and Free

Not mysteries

Ron and Phil?

Jake and Terry?

Is this Eric?

Magical mystery tour

Denny and AMG

Bob Mizer’s original conception for Athletic Model Guild was as a photographers’ cooperative, although little enough remains: I have only encountered one associated photographer (Harlan Helm, about whom Mizer wrote admiringly, and who participated in the very first AMG album). 

There was another, though, one hiding in plain sight. Denny Denfield is often credited as a tagalong photographer, one covering the same shoots as Bob Mizer — the models sometimes naked rather than minimally dressed — but I have come across a couple of Denfield scenes with Mizer models, both of which appear in AMG catalogues.

The earlier one published is in Duke Cannon’s ZA13 catalogue. It is listed there as ZA 84.

The other, from the same session, appears in the first duals catalogue published as such. It is numbered ZF 67.

So the association was real, and at least two Denny Denfields were openly offered for sale (as AMG, but still!).