Antonio Montez

Bob Maxwell

Will Marks

Don McConnell and Bruno Gomm

Jerry Fanning and John Krivos

Al Henry

Don Cornell

A day at the pool

Gable Boudreaux

Hawaiian Set: Part Nine

Hawaiian Set: Part Eight

Hawaiian Set: Part Seven

And in conclusion

And more

More Jerry Roquemore

Jerry Roquemore Day

More from Mount Mizer

A few more examples: 

Wally Shillcutt’s ZU album and catalogue was scheduled for publication in November 1950.

Henry Lenz, in album and catalogue ZY, was published in 1951,

as was the ZZ album/catalogue for Ed Holovchik.

Mount Mizer revisited

The ZF variety dual album and catalogue was scheduled for release in May 1949, the earliest date I can readily access for the Athletic Model Guild’s publishing program. Thereafter, up through late 1951, one can cobble together a timeline for AMG releases in the ZA-ZZ series. 

I had thought ZP and ZQ were the earliest instances of “Mount Mizer” appearing as a modeling setting, but a review of my own photo albums sets me straight: Forrester Millard is shown in his own ZB catalogue

as is Gene Eberle in the ZD catalogue.

John Winship, whose ZH album and catalogue was to be published in July 1949, was also photographed on Mount Mizer.

Doug Rommel

Bob Rome

Frank Rolland

Hawaiian Set: Part Six

From Series 79

Bill Robb

Helmut Riedmeier

Not Murray

Murray

Athletic Model Guild on display

The grounds of the Athletic Model Guild campus are such a feature of AMG photography that I thought it would be interesting to look at early studio images to see when and how it was introduced. 

Since Bob Mizer did not immediately leave his studio to work outside, it is unsurprising that the first months of AMG production feature some identifiable interior features, like the flooring in Mizer’s office. Most of the early interiors are dressed to obscure their individuality, though: they could be anywhere.

The earliest exterior sessions were published in albums and catalogues D, F, and G. The first AMG settings I can confidently identify appear in Album ZQ (July 1950) and the ZP catalogue (initially published in June 1950; the photos of Bob Schwartz were likely published later). In any case, the images — of what is today sometimes called “Mount Mizer” — are not particularly notable, save as the earliest AMG exteriors.*

Indeed, the remaining album and catalogue photos of Leonard Chambers, Henry Lenz, and Ed Holovchik [Ed Fury] also utilize Mount Mizer. Up through late 1951, then, Bob Mizer published no images of the Athletic Model Guild campus as we would come to know it … other than the ubiquitous Mount Mizer itself, which could be undressed as bare concrete or dressed in seasonal costume.

*I should really add that there are a quantity of earlier album and catalogue images of exterior settings, perhaps at AMG, but they lack any sort identifiable features: one sun drenched stucco wall resembles another.

Hawaiian Set: Part Five

Stan Ridley

Tom Richards

Mike Richards

Du Bois at AMG

Don Reyes

Robert Rex