O 11

E 9

S 4

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

P 1

Bob Mizer followed an album of two brunets (Ken Rashoff and Larry Farrell) with a blond: Andy Kozak, in his second solo album.

O 11

O 11 as printed.

O 11 as it appears in early versions of Album O.

O 8

O 8 as printed.

O 8 as it appears in early versions of Album O.

O 7

O 6

More from the O album

O 5 as printed.

O 5 as it appears in early versions of Album O.

O 4

O 4 as printed.

O 4 as it appears in early versions of Album O.

O 3

O 3 as printed.

O 3 as it appears in early versions of Album O.

O 2

O 2 as printed.

O 2 as it appears in early versions of Album O.

Closeup # 2

I have long wanted to do a series on complete runs of the early AMG albums — the first twelve photos in a set, sold as a group — and I can now do Albums O, P, Q, R, and S. These are mostly solo albums, since the A-Z and ZA-ZZ series featured more solo than variety albums and catalogues, even as the latter grew to an often alarming size.

Album O is unusual in that, like Album M, the whole catalogue is just the album of twelve images. Another unusual feature, as I discovered, is that Album O is a dual album, since Ken Rashoff appears in nine images and Larry Farrell appears in three.

Finally, Album O has a numbers of images stamped to indicate the image has been reversed, so I will show both versions.

O 1 as printed.

O 1 as it appears in early versions of Album O.

Ken Rashoff

Album 0 (7-12)

And yet it seems that there is no mystery, really, and Album O is in fact a shared album — perhaps because there were not enough Rashoff photos to make an album of twelve images, let alone enough to fill a catalogue of extras?

In any case, Larry Farrell appears in Album 0 with Ken Rashoff, which makes both standalone albums variety (rather than solo) efforts.

Revisited: Larry Farrell and Ken Rashoff

Back in February 2024, I wrote about how Ken Rashoff and Larry Farrell are often confused for one another. Farrell had his own album and catalogue (L13), as well as a shared catalogue with Andy Kozak (U13), while Rashoff is said to have one of only two AMG albums without a catalogue of extras (O) — the other is M.

I have sometimes seen and handled Farrell photos marked 0 — a curiosity, I thought, an artifact of a later hand unfamiliar with the difference between Rashoff and Farrell.

Ken Rashoff

More first impressions

Howard Olsen

AMG album/catalogue E introduced a fair number of models who became studio perennials — no fewer than nine men who would recur, two of whom would appear in albums of their own.

Louis Paul 

and Joe Bloomberg 

Angelo Noto and Joe Cuilla

Don McLeod

Frank Mead

John Balen

Ken Rashoff

Jerry Feniello

More AMG IDs

Continuing my review of the early AMG albums and catalogues, following the list published in AMG Bulletin 54:

M, Variety

N, Variety

O, Ken Rashoff

P, Andy Kozak

Q, Variety

R, Forrester Millard

S, Howard Olsen

T, Variety

U, Andy Kozak and Larry Farrell

V, Gene Meyer and Pepper Gomez

W, John Murphy

X, Variety

Y, Arnold Klein and Mel Klein

Z, Ben Sorensen and Andy Kozak 

ZA, Duke Cannon

ZB, Forrester Millard and Andy Kozak

Continued here