M 7

Beach Week continues

G 5

Harold Gillespie

Millard, Gillespie, McLeod, Feniello, Cuilla, and Noto

More first impressions

Harold Gillespie

I think I am right in saying that Andy Kozak is the first AMG model whose own album/catalogue serves as his introduction — all of his predecessors, and most of his successors, were teased in variety albums before a standalone outing.

Andy Kozak

Larry Farrell

Dick Gilman

Ken McNeel

More early AMG duals

Forrester Millard and Harold Gillespie

Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild publishing program was initially premised on a curated “album” of twelve images supplemented by a “catalogue” of extras. So far as I know, only Albums M and O are complete as albums — that is, with no extras gathered into a catalogue.

Album M is a variety album with some of the same models found in Albums E and G. Like the G album, these images record outdoor sessions: Forrester Millard and Harold Gillespie in the shallows, Don McLeod and Jerry Feniello grappling in the grass, Angelo Noto and Joe Cuilla in an acrobatic pose and at rest. A final evocative image shows the pair clasping hands across railroad tracks.

Don McLeod and Jerry Feniello

Joe Cuilla and Angelo Noto 

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