#athletic model guild

[anthonysperkins]

Go Go Sailor dir. Bob Mizer Films of Mythos 1956-1971

[creativespark]

Bob Mizer, Telephone Lineman, 1964

[dan-cyril-kingston]

Jim Paris for Athletic Model Guild (photography by Bob Mizer)

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♐ December 17th: Mizer Model, John "Butchie" Davidson.

[mrmousetolliver]

Forrester Millard (1948) photographed by Bob Mizer for Athletic Model Guild

[angrylovelyheart]

Jimmy Carroll for Bob Mizer in April 1967

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day 103 years ago: pioneering homoerotic photographer, filmmaker, founder of Athletic Model Guild studio and Physique Pictorial magazine, “the Cecil B DeMille of the posing pouch” Bob Mizer (Robert Henry Mizer, 27 March 1922 – 12 May 1992). All these decades later, Mizer’s beautiful, joyous and life-affirming vintage beefcake pin-ups celebrating firm male flesh are STILL widely censored on the internet. In 2023 I visited “A Hard Man is Good to Find!” (billed as “a bold new exhibition charting over 60 years of queer photography of the male physique”) at The Photographer’s Gallery here in London. It featured an actual posing pouch from Athletic Model Guild studios, sewn by Mizer’s mother, displayed in a glass vitrine. It was like witnessing a sacred religious artifact - like the shroud of Turin! (I took a photo which is archived on my phone - I really should post sometime!). Pictured: a “safe for social media” shot of model Beau Rouge photographed by Mizer in Los Angeles, 1954.

[darklingvd]

Monte Hansen (also credited as Monte Hanson), photographed by Athletic Model Guild, Los Angeles, circa 1964.