Leftovers from Larry III

It's time for another series of odds and ends left over from posts featuring images sent to me by Larry K.  (Larry has a great blog, and there's a link in today's last post.)  We start with the first of at least two boxers in the set, Assane Diouf, a Senegalese who fought in France 1935-47.

 

Finn

Leave it to Larry to find an SA-Kuva photo that I had never seen before.  The note attached said:  "1941-06-20-Vilppula-Matti Niherjuuri."  I think his name was Matti Vilppula, but the last 

word in the note does not show up on Google.  Maybe it's in Russia now.  I have this 

bizarre fantasy that Matti is leading a Finnish Army Sunday service's hymn singing

 in the nude, but the cigarette in his hand makes me think otherwise.

 

Weigh-In

This is obviously a weigh-in of some sort, but it doesn't look 

like one of those official ones coverd by media.

 

1930

This young man was photographed with is barbells in 1930.

 

Sailors

These African-American sailors where photographed showering after work in 1945.  Wayne Miller took the photo on Guan where the men were used as laborers to unload suppy ships.

 

George Shuba

I'm pretty sure the black and white original 1957 photo of George Shuba is one of those great 

locker room shots from the LIFE Archive.  The card, of course, is fake, but I like it.

Model

This poorly cropped (not by Larry) photo is an unknown model who posed for a statue of Istvan Hegedus, a Hungarian athlete, sportsman, and minor national hero.  He was killed by a stray bullet during the uprising of 1956, but not before he posed as a model himself in 1949 for the 20 florint 

banknote shown below.  The note remained in circulation until 1989 when the 

new anti-communist government decided that it was time for a change.

And no, I couldn't find a nude photo of Mr. Hegedus.

 

Roy Richter

I was very pleased to find this George Platt Lynes photo of Roy Richter in an email from Larry K.  It was made in Los Angeles in 1947 during a brief period when Mr. Lynes went West to make money.

 

Luc van Dam

This dreamy number from 1949 is boxer Luc van Dam showering after a training session.

 

Beach Goer

Our last donation from Larry K was on a French website, and the backdrop is a type of wind shelter one sees quite often in the UK.  The origin of the photo and the man's deep all over tan make me think "South of France."  Thanks again to Larry for today's photos!

Visit him at:  https://unashamedmale.blogspot.com/

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 310

 A close look at Eadweard Muybridge's Plate 310

I'm doing something a bit different today, and focusing on a single plate, number 310, from Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking 1884 motion studies.  Number 310 features a young man putting the shot from three angles. I will be showing every image in order by rows so that those of you with technical limitations on enlargement can see some detail.  At the end, I will post a high resolution version that enlarges fairly well.  I suggest blowing it up and scrolling horizontally to get the best impression of motion.  If any of you photoshop geniuses want to make GIFs, I would be happy to have them and post them later.  Below, a portrait photo of Mr. M.

Front View, Segment 1

 In the first segment of the front view, we get some nice muscle shots in panels two and three.

Front View, Segment 2

 In segment two we get the wind-up, such as it is.  More about that later.

Front View, Segment 3

 The athlete lets the put fly in segment three.

Front View, Segment 4

 Segment four is the follow-through, and we also get a side derriere view.

Rear View, Segment 1

 The second row of Plate 310 was taken from a camera angle that eventually produces a rear view, 

so thit's what I'm calling it.  It start with the pickup, just like the other two.

Rear View, Segment 2

 The muscles in panel one are nice, but most of you will like the crotch action in panel three.

Rear Angle, Segment 3

Panel three of this segment has some fine musculature on view.

Rear Angle, Segment 4

 Is that the shot flying away at upper right in the first panel?

Oblique Angle, Segment 1

 The bottom row of Plate 310 shows our athlete from a somewhat oblique angle.

The picture quality from this camera is a rather spotty.

Oblique Angle, Segment 2

It was tempting to brighten up this segment, but I decided not to.

 

Oblique Angle, Segment 3

 I don't know if the method here was standard for 1884 or not,

but we don't see the typical 20th Century full turn into the put.

Oblique Angle, Segment 4

 The last bit of follow-though from the oblique angle completes the full plate sequence.

The complete unedited plate follows.

And finally, the whole thing

 

Chubby Day, Part 1 - Naked Guys

It's chubby day on the blog, and it will be a two parter with an intermission.  

Part one is five naked men, starting with this gentleman from New Zealand.

 

On a cot

Here we have a chubby guy on a World War II Army surplus cot.  Every family I knew 

growing up had one of those god-awful things, and  nobody could sleep on one.

 

Blood Drive

This was the day they had a blood donation drive at a nudist gathering.  Many of my viewers may 

not be able to relate to this photo . . . other than perhaps being jealous of the females who 

get to rub the bear's tummy to calm him down.  I'm not so sure it's working, however.

It may be more like they're holding him down.  Oh, well, it's a good cause.

 

Sauna Pair

This pair in a sauna look like they're having a good time.

 

Converted

I freely admit to having converted this happy looking fellow's picture to black and white.  No matter how I fiddled with it on my software, I couldn't ged rid of some garish color overbleed.

 

Chubby Day, Intermission - Sumos

For an intermission, we will take a look at a few Sumo wrestlers.  This 1947 American newspaper clipping tells how postwar food shortages had caused the wrestlers to lose weight.

 

Grand Champion

Here we see Grand Champion (Yokozuna) Taniemon Hitachiyama from about 1905.

 

Chubby Day, Part 2 - Swimmers

 

Part Two of chubby day features men at swimming locations, mostly beaches.  This gentleman was a member of the Brighton Swim Club at an early 20th Century New Years Day swim.

Ankle deep

Hopefully there's some water nearby deep enough to swim in.

 

Really friendly

These two look like they sneaked off into the bushes for some privacy,

but got followed by a photographer.

 

Cleveland

OK, so the beach is fake, but I had to include this one.  If my notes are correct, this man was a circus fat man performer.  And yes, there was a time people went to the beach in Cleveland.  In fact, some still do.  Google says that it is safe most of the time, but always check with the Health Department.

 

Big Six

I don't know who Big Six was but his little men friends are quite good looking.

 

Friendly

These two seem quite friendly.

 

Family Guy

This looks like a family snapshot.

 

Sarge

I cropped our final chub of the day from a photo of a group of World War II U.S. Army 

men at an unknown beach.  Something tells me he was "Sarge."

 

Allyn Cox, Part 1 - Drawings

American muralist Allyn Cox left us dozens of male nude drawings, but only a few of the murals and paintings he produced showed unclothed men.  A casual observer might think the nude drawings were academic pieces, but the great majority were studies for his famous murals.  He would draw the men nude on paper and then add clothes when he painted the murals.  I don't know which of his finished works the drawing above relates to, but I like it..

 

Derriere I

This rear view of a lanky model was a study for The Resurrection.

 

Andrew Jackson

Allyn Cox did a ceiling mural on the East Central Portico of the U.S. Capitol showing the inauguration of Andrew Jackson.  As was his usual practice, he made a nude drawing of his subject before painting the actual piece.  I wonder what Old Hickory would have thought of this drawing.

 

Derriere II

Oursecond derriere drawing is quite well formed.

 

Holding a book

I think the model in our last drawing is holding a book . . . or something.

 

Allyn Cox, Part 2 - Color Works

As promised, part two of our Allyn Cox series features works in color.  An online resale site dated this pastel drawing as 1950s, and it recently sold for $2200.  That seems low, but I'm no expert.

 

Diana and Actaeon

This is a detail from the Allyn Cox mural Diana and Actaeon, 

a three panel work at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, D.C.

 

1960

This reclining male nude was dated at 1960.

 

Sylvan Deity

I wish I had a date for this Allyn Cox oil on canvas painting called Sylvan Deity.

For some reason it makes me think of Maxfield Parrish.

 

Contemplation 1934

I'm ending the Allyn Cox two-parter with my favorite of the day, Contemplation from 1934.

The color, the pose, and the model are all simply beautiful.