This seems like another Forrester/Dixon/Stevens situation to me. I’m not convinced this is Leonard Kipp (or Kip Leonard) or Ben Pascham — the Kipp and Pascham images in the directory are too small to really tell what they look like. I would love to see a catalogue page for Pascham — that would help. Based on what I’ve seen at Men From Back Then, this session probably belongs to the mid-1940s (the shoes, the nudity), so perhaps the mystery model never appeared in an AMG catalogue as such, and we don’t have a name for him.
I also have these photos labeled as "Ben Pascham" - but I'm pretty sure that he is not the Ben Pascham from the AMG 1000 model directory. I'm not even 100% sure that these photos are by Bob Mizer - one of my photos is a full frontal nude and there are only very few nude shots by Mizer from this time.
I think this is Ben Pascham - and I don't think it's an alias. I have a catalogue page for Leonard Kipp (39-XI13) and he doesn't look the same to me.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like another Forrester/Dixon/Stevens situation to me. I’m not convinced this is Leonard Kipp (or Kip Leonard) or Ben Pascham — the Kipp and Pascham images in the directory are too small to really tell what they look like. I would love to see a catalogue page for Pascham — that would help. Based on what I’ve seen at Men From Back Then, this session probably belongs to the mid-1940s (the shoes, the nudity), so perhaps the mystery model never appeared in an AMG catalogue as such, and we don’t have a name for him.
DeleteI also have these photos labeled as "Ben Pascham" - but I'm pretty sure that he is not the Ben Pascham from the AMG 1000 model directory. I'm not even 100% sure that these photos are by Bob Mizer - one of my photos is a full frontal nude and there are only very few nude shots by Mizer from this time.
DeleteNichts ist besser als ein sehr williger Segler, Mizer hatte die Wahl der Flotte.
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It is Ben Pascham, supposedly taken by Bob Mizer at Ko'Vert’s studio before Mizer started AMG. Rare part of Mizer’s early career.
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