Q 3

Q 2

Album Q

Album Q is unusual in that it divides neatly in quarters, three images each of four models. 

Johnny Murphy, who later got his own album, is introduced here.

Q 1

Down on the farm

Don Fosmire and Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson and Eddie Stevens

Daniel Coakley and Robert Dechmerowski

Dick Durant and Scott Leroy

Gary Conway

Models with props 28

“Herb & Butch”

Mystery pair

Barrington on location

Yves Le Coadou

Barrington in the studio

Glen Hudson

Wayne Hubble

Irwin Horwitz

Jeremiah Horrigan

Sven Holm and David Knight

Models with props 27

Roy Hilligen

Willis Head

Al Hazen

Ed Hayes

Models with props 26

“Pug” Hansen

Monte Hansen

Gordon Hansen and Bob Schwartz

Jimmy Hale

John Hackett

Models with props 25

1,000th AMG post

I had a wider conception of what this blog could be when I set out in February 2024 to catalogue highlights (and scholarship!) in my collection, but I can see I have gone down a particularly deep rabbit hole to focus on male physique photography … and let’s be honest, Athletic Model Guild physique photography! 

As I post this, more than half my posts refer to AMG, heavily weighted toward the first five years of the studio’s public existence. But from Forrester Millard to Gable Boudreaux — the Alpha and the Omega of AMG’s first two cataloguing systems, A13-RR13 — I have blogged about thousands of images and (it must be) hundreds of models.

One benefit of this public face has been the interaction with other collectors/enthusiasts, who have helped me to identify everyone from Bob Delmonteque to Phillip Phillips … embarrassing oversights both. My interest lies in the early years, but I have collected broadly, even unidentified models who appealed to me (and, at the time, with no notion of any way to identify them, save for the published directories and their pages of thumbnail photos). 

I have gone on to catalogue the published directories up through the mid-1960s — this turns out to be only infrequently helpful, since identifying the face usually precedes capturing the half-remembered name!

So here’s to Bob Mizer and Athletic Model Guild, and to all of the readers who have perused the blog and commented on the images — I hope it has been as entertaining for you as it has been a pleasure for me.