Homage

 

Howard Olsen by Mizer  

Vern Charles by Denfield 

Harris and Olsen at the beach

Howard Olsen

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G 3

E 1

Howard

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Lucky Allen Q 28

Forrester Millard R 15

Forrester Millard R 29

Howard Olsen S 34 

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The times made men out of boys, but something boyish still lingers here.

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…Anthony Caesar, Forrester Millard, and Howard Olsen offer viewers a range of options: mostly lithe, well-built, not yet muscle-bound. Several are beautiful; others are stalwart and solid. They represent their era, one of possibility, of youth, at once carefree and yet scarcely free of the last war. 

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Ken Rashoff, Larry Farrell, Andy Kozak, John Murphy, Robert Warner, Lucky Allen…

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Fewer than twenty years separate these images from silent films, and of course popular culture was particularly engaged with dance, modern or otherwise. So athletes, bodybuilders, dancers — they all trooped into photo studios to be memorialized.

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What was Bob Mizer trying to accomplish with this group of models, with these interiors, published in this order? I think he was playing with lighting, with pose, with expression and stance — a kind of movement in still pictures. This was the age of “art pictures” — wink, wink. But Athletic Model Guild photos from this first year of production do, in fact, function as art pictures, suitable for artists to use in lieu of live models.