This was a real surprise, and not because it's Bill Derrick. The surprise is that somehow this
grainy picture by Dave Martin won out over some truly spectacular studio shots.
And there you have it, the ten most frequently viewed posts on this blog.
This doesn't surprise me... Less, after all, is often more and there is quite enough of the tantalizing Mr Derrick to go round without need of second helpings.
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean.
DeleteTwo beautiful structures, Bill Derrick at the Pulgas Water Temple in Redwood City CA by the classic minded Dave Martin:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning the location. I have it in my notes, but didn't include it here.
DeleteI never knew Dave Martin photographed at the Pulgas Water Temple in Redwood City. But that makes sense since he photgraphed at the Crystal Springs Resevoir. It is a great photo.!
ReplyDeleteThe Crystal Springs Reservoir and Pulgas Water Temple are part of the Hetch Hetchy water project that supplies San Francisco with water.
DeleteThere is also the Sunol Water Temple in Sunol CA, both copied their classic design from the Temple of Vesta at the Tivoli Gardens of Rome Italy. The Tivoli Gardens feature fantastic water features which can be seen in the Kennth Anger short film Eaux d'Artifice :)
Thank you for telling me about that. Classic Dave Martin to find such interesting places to photograph Models. I hope to visit Pulgas when I travel to California in 2024.
DeleteI have to add the photograph of Bill Derrick by Dave Martin is beautifully composed and is like seeing an image of an athlete of ancient Greece.
DeleteHow they were able to photograph in a public place and not get caught I can only guess. Martin either paid off the guard or the guard was a friend, or they were there when it was closed :)
While he wasn't actually fully nude, I'm sure the management would not have approved. I read somewhere that the photographers would sometimes do stealth shooting while no one was looking. As you say, it's more likely that the place was closed.
DeleteI read that in the 1940s a physique model posed in a codpiece among the colonnades at the Palace of Fine Art in San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteHis trick was he wore a robe, quickly shed it, did a pose for the photographer and then slipped the robe back on before anyone noticed. :)
Pretty much sounds the same as what I read.
DeleteIt is rather special. Almost as if the Greeks or Romans had photography.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought of it that way, but it's a nice idea.
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