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Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Eddie and some tunes


Eddie Williams never fails to impress, but he looks a 
bit stilted in this Don Whitman/WPG photo.

 

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  1. Eddie is an all time favorite of mine.

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    1. The man has an enduring popularity, both on this blog an in the eyes of collectors. A fine model.

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  2. Wow! Fantastic musculature! What do you make of the lighting? It has a yellowish cast. Oh, and his other attributes are fantastic, too. Wow! Again.

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    1. Yeah, there seems to be a combination of yellowing and fading going on. It could use restoration, but I decided to leave it as I found it.

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  3. I've never been able to figure out how Eddie has so many full frontal WPG nude photos in an era when Don was fastidious about all his models wearing posing straps. I've seen a few frontal nudes of Billy Joe Carr, but you've explained them as being photoshopped frauds. Any ideas on how Eddie was an obvious exception?

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    1. This photo is from the "At Home" series of domestic scenes Mr. Whitman did with a number of models. As such, it would have been legal at the time. Eddie was a competitive bodybuilder whose modeling career spanned the years when frontal became legal. The Billy Joe Carr photos seem to have been made at around the same time, but not all models were willing to pose frontally nude. For one as good as Billy Joe, Whitman probably knew he could sell posing strap material. Or alternatively, Billy Joe's may have been made earlier.

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