When I changed the direction of the blog and said I would be doing less physique photography,
I didn't mean I was abandoning it entirely. Today I will be posting ten photos from a variety of museums and one exclusive gallery. While they aren't necessarily the images I would have chosen
as the best of the artists, they are all quite good and deserving of their recognition. We start with
Bob Mizer of AMG and a picture of a cocky looking Joe Dallesandro that is now part of the photography collection at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
As Lou Reed put it:"Everybody had to pay and pay," including Mr. Mizer no doubt.
Pretty well oiled down, isn't he? I do like that facial expression.
ReplyDeleteThat expression, according to many, summed up his character at the time.
DeleteJoe Dallesandro also appeared on screen in 1976 in Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus with English actress Jane Birkin, sometime partner of Serge Gainsbourg, with whom she sang the hit single (banned by the BBC) and who died in Paris on July 16th this year at the age of 76, with Madame la Présidente, Mamie Macron, attending her funeral. It was Serge Gainsbourg's directorial debut and I bet he had to pay and pay as well...
ReplyDeleteI wasn’t aware that you had changed the direction of the blog, and I have to say I hadn’t really noticed. Have I missed something? Vintage Muscle Men is still one of my favourite blogs.
ReplyDeleteI was getting lazy and using the vast amount of physique photography as filler when I couldn't think of anything more interesting to post. I did put up a confessional piece with no photos attached that a lot of people missed. The clincher was the fact that I don't really like the stuff that came out after liberalization in the late 60s when the floodgates opened and artistic standards fell through the floor. Some talented photographers such as Danny Fitzgerald of Les Demi Dieux quit the business in dismay at that point.
DeleteIt does seem a lot of photographers where not as creative once they could just show nudity or a large piece. There is something special about the era and photos before it was legal, wheather they were posing strap, physique or illegal nudes.
ReplyDeleteReally like your blog.
Thank you for the nice comment! It was about five years after the floodgates of legal nudity opened before artistic male nudes began to reappear, and it was often, but not always, new photographers who produced them.
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