Double congratulations on the number of posts and views :) 🍾🎉 Sexually provocative cmnm photo of nude Winship under the lash. Mizer seemed to push the envelope more in the early part of his career. It seems physique photographers could get away with more in that time of 1945 to 1950, and their models were more willing. My bodybuilding uncle use to pose nude for art students in San Francisco and Oakland in the late 1940’s. He even posed nude for an amateur photographer among the collonades and the reflection pond of the Palace of Fine Arts in SF ! My uncle told me they had to go early in the morning when it was closed. He wore shorts, a robe and flip flops that he took off after the photographer set up his camera. He then posed nude and quickly put the robe on, then they went to the reflection pond where he doffed the robe again and he posed like Narcissus ! Unbeknownst to them a guard was present ! On the way back to their car, the elderly guard approached them, winked and told them he enjoyed the free show and wouldn’t tell a soul :) My uncle had been approached to pose nude by Warner and Martin but turned them down as they sold their photos in the mail to the public. My uncle showed me the album of photographs when he posed for the photographer and a few when he was an art school model. Most of them were artistic nudes, a few were private photos of him at full erection taken by the amateur photographer. Like most bodybuilders he was proud of his body and like a few not afraid to show off his manhood to a select few. :) His war experiences taught him you only live once, he had seen fellow marines and sailors killed. So he lived life to the fullest. Living in Oakland and hanging out at Washington Park in Alameda with other bodybuilders, and in 1949 buying a used 1941 Buick convertible and driving down to see Muscle Beach. He ended up living in Santa Monica and Hollywood before returning to Oakland in the 1980’s. When he died homophobic family members threw his album in the trash.:( Reactionary people can’t help themselves, can they ?! My uncle was a proud war veteran of WW2 and a decent man, he deserved better from certain family members. I cherish his memory.:) -Rj
Rj, he sounds amazing. I’m haunted by all the work created and curated, then summarily discarded. I fear my family will do the same thing — it might feel easier than tackling a collection. (I trust the homophobia won’t be the leading reason for trashing it!)
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ReplyDeleteAnd 65,000 page views as of this morning.
ReplyDeleteDouble congratulations on the number of posts and views :) 🍾🎉
ReplyDeleteSexually provocative cmnm photo of nude Winship under the lash.
Mizer seemed to push the envelope more in the early part of his career.
It seems physique photographers could get away with more in that time of 1945 to 1950, and their models were more willing.
My bodybuilding uncle use to pose nude for art students in San Francisco and Oakland in the late 1940’s.
He even posed nude for an amateur photographer among the collonades and the reflection pond of the Palace of Fine Arts in SF ! My uncle told me they had to go early in the morning when it was closed. He wore shorts, a robe and flip flops that he took off after the photographer set up his camera.
He then posed nude and quickly put the robe on, then they went to the reflection pond where he doffed the robe again and he posed like Narcissus !
Unbeknownst to them a guard was present ! On the way back to their car, the elderly guard approached them, winked and told them he enjoyed the free show and wouldn’t tell a soul :)
My uncle had been approached to pose nude by Warner and Martin but turned them down as they sold their photos in the mail to the public.
My uncle showed me the album of photographs when he posed for the photographer and a few when he was an art school model. Most of them were artistic nudes, a few were private photos of him at full erection taken by the amateur photographer. Like most bodybuilders he was proud of his body and like a few not afraid to show off his manhood to a select few. :)
His war experiences taught him you only live once, he had seen fellow marines and sailors killed. So he lived life to the fullest. Living in Oakland and hanging out at Washington Park in Alameda with other bodybuilders, and in 1949 buying a used 1941 Buick convertible and driving down to see Muscle Beach. He ended up living in Santa Monica and Hollywood before returning to Oakland in the 1980’s.
When he died homophobic family members threw his album in the trash.:(
Reactionary people can’t help themselves, can they ?!
My uncle was a proud war veteran of WW2 and a decent man, he deserved better from certain family members.
I cherish his memory.:)
-Rj
Rj, he sounds amazing. I’m haunted by all the work created and curated, then summarily discarded. I fear my family will do the same thing — it might feel easier than tackling a collection. (I trust the homophobia won’t be the leading reason for trashing it!)
DeleteProst ! 🍻
ReplyDeleteJawohl, ein provokantes Foto.
Mizer hatte das Glück, dass einige bereitwillige Models wie Winship für seine Kamera posierten.
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