Roy Blakey - The Magazines

The more I delve into Roy Blakey's work, the more impressed I become.  His work in the iconic gay men's magazines of the 1970s and 1980sis among his best, and it will be featured here today.

We start with Harvey Evans on the cover of After Dark from October, 1971.

 

Mandate I

The first magazine I noticed a Roy Blakey photo in was mandate.

Michael Muncie appeared there in September, 1978.

 

After Dark II

I don't have the issue for this one, but my source said it was from After Dark.

 

Mandate II

Roy Blakey did the cover plus an interior spread in the April 1980 edition of Mandate.

The model is Mark Negrem.

 

Honcho I

This is Joe Porcelli from the August, 1980 edition of Honcho.

 

Mandate III

This is Robert La Tourneaux from Mandate 1978.

 

After Dark III

Casey Donovan, aka Cal Culver, appeared on the cover and inside After Dark in December 1972.

 

Honcho II

Earlier we say Mark Negrem in Mandate,

but this one is supposed to be from Honcho.

 

Mandate IV

For those of you who actually read the articles in these sorts of magazines,

here's one about Larry Paulette and his lovely derriere.

 

Mandate V

We close with a Mandate piece about gay sex in the cinema.

 

Douglas of Detroit Quarterly

Douglas Detroit makes a regulat quarterly appearance today,

starting with the first of three unknowns in this series.

 

Mike Dubel

Doug Juleff didn't use a lot of props, but this archery themed photo of Mike Dubel works.  

Actually, just about anything with Mike Dubel in it would work just fine for me.

 

Stan Stanczyk

Although  he frequently posed full frontal, I do have this demure shot of Stan Stanczyk.

 

Bob and Joe

Here we see Bob Delmonteque and Joe Marcy.

 

Keith Maynard

Keith Maynard looked right into Doug Juleff's camera

when he posed for this reclining shot.

 

Norbert Schemansky

This is Norbert Schemansky, a highly regarded weightlifter and competitive bodybuilder.

His brother Jerry also posed for Douglas of Detroit.

 

Unknown II

I really like the reverse spotlight and shadow effect in our second DofD unknown.

 

Bill Hooper

This stacked fellow is Bill Hooper.

 

Al Walch

We get a smile from a semi-reclining Al Walch.

 

Unknown III

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Etienne Jules Marey

Today we look at some more work by Etienne Jules Marey, a French scientist and photographer 

whose motion studies were instrumental in the development of modern movies.  Although not 

as prolific as Muybridge, he took a somewhat more scientific approach.  The commemorative

 relief above was sculpted by Paul Richer, a photographer and artist who knew 

Mr. Marey and whose work has been featured here many times.

 

Running Man I

This is the first of two images showing a sequence of a man running.

Note how well we can see the musculature.

 

Richard Sheldon

My source says this is American 1900 Olympic athlete Richard Sheldon, 

and that Mr. Marey was assisted in producing the sequence by Lucien Bull.

 

Jump

The model here is fully clothed, but I find the image to be charming for some reason.

 

Swing

I posted another image from this sequence in my last Marey series, but this one is different.

And once again, the capture of the musculature is exceptional.  I will be posting a GIF 

of the entire sequence in a future series.  Disclosure:  I removed yellowing.

 

 Here's a second running man, only this time the runner

 begins in an athletic starting position at right.

Pole Vault

I find this pole vaulter sequence interesting because it not only show the full range of motion from start to finish, but it also shows the outdoor shed used by Mr. Marey to do his work.  This is very similar to the arrangement that Eadweard Muybridge used in Philadephia.

 

GIF II

Here's another GIF.  The ball isn't the only thing that bounces.

 

Movie Clip

Here's a movie clip that I call,  "One, two, cha cha cha."

 

Georges Demeny

Georges Demeny was an associate and assistant of E.J. Marey who did some good solo work 

as well.  The gymnast on the horizontal bar was recorded by Mr. Demeny in 1906.