Nearly all the great physique photographers used columns as props in their work, but none
more so than Lon Hanagan, aka Lon of New York. Today we'll look at yet more examples
of this motif, and we start with Raul Pacheco, one of Lon's most prolific models.
There really is, I think, something about a column... Such was her ferocious legacy, Queen Victoria was never really the butt of jokes until Joan Rivers visited Britain for the first time. Before a live audience, she showed a photograph of a black-bedecked Victoria curtsying before a bust of the dead Prince Albert on a simply enormous column. "No wonder she missed him..." was just about the most repeatable of the innuendo. The audience was in disbelief at first. Then the damn broke. I have never, before or since, heard an audience laugh with such abandon. I doubt Joan Rivers thought she was offering an entire nation much needed psychotherapy, but that was just about what it was. How I miss her. Joan Rivers, that is.
ReplyDeleteJoan Rivers was one of a kind. She sometimes got a bit too caustic for me, but she was always funny.
DeleteI’m surprised you haven’t done a Raul Pacheco day yet. He was as handsome as he was prolific. He really was one of those models who couldn’t take a bad photo.
ReplyDeleteI really should. He's one of those who deserve it despite the fact that I'm not a fan. I post photos I don't like all the time, so why not him?
DeleteIn diesem Winkel hatte Lon Herr pacheco an die Saule binden sollen, um eine grosser Wirkung zu erzielen ,wir Herkules entfesselt. Die Saule ist in vielen Kulturen ein phallisches Symbol der Starke.. Dieses Bild reprasentiert die Starke von Pacheco.
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I totally get the phallic impact of the column.
DeleteIch frage mich, ob die Spalten ihre 'Fahigkeiten' darstellen.
DeleteDie gebrochene Saule nicht so gut, die hohen Saulen fantastisch !
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I'm not sure the symbolism of the columns was quite that literal.
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