Bob Yerkes

Bob Yerkes (1932-2024)

ZC 280

G 41

G 36

G 4

Bob Yerkes and Gene Murphy

Later Bob Yerkes

Bob Yerkes quintet

Bob Yerkes duet

Howard Thomas and Bob Yerkes

Still life with light bulb

Bob Yerkes and Gene Murphy

Bob Yerkes Day

Bob Yerkes (Brayton Walter Yerkes, 1932-2024) was probably the last living AMG model to appear in the A and B albums and catalogues, published in 1946. He died on October 1.

Plain backgrounds 9

First impressions

Forrester Millard and Gene Meyer posed for Bob Mizer for years, starting when they were very young and documenting their bodies’ development over a long period. I thought it might be interesting to pull together the first appearances of some early AMG notables — not the earliest image taken (as of Meyer, when he was in his early teens), but the first the studio published. 

Bob McCune

Bob Yerkes

Gene Eberle

Gene Meyer 

and Pepper Gomez

John Miller

More early AMG duals

Bob Mizer’s AMG album/catalogue G marks the studio’s first full venture outdoors. (John Miller’s D catalogue and Gene Eberle’s album/catalogue F are the earliest tentative steps out of the photographer’s studio.) 

Harold Gillespie appears for the first time in G, but the models are otherwise familiar: Angelo Noto and Joe Cuilla (seen here), Howard Olsen, Bob Yerkes, Gene Eberle, Don McLeod, Jerry Feniello, John Miller, and Forrester Millard had already appeared in earlier albums and catalogues.

Some of the compositions in this al fresco outing indicate that Mizer was just as confident outside as indoors.

John Miller

and Forrester Millard

Jerry Feniello and Don McLeod

Harold Gillespie and Forrester Millard