It's Halloween, and we start the show with a guy who almost didn't have a thing to wear.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
AMG
I stole this one from James over at Men From Back Then . It's from the AMG movie The Witch and the Hoods featuring Jim Higgins, Jackie Baker, Larry Beier, and Andy Chavez. Thanks James!
Pageant
This bit of cultural appropriation is from a nudist pageant of some sort,
probably not a Halloween party.
AMG II
This looks like a scene from an AMG movie, but I don't know which one.
Perhaps someone will inform us shortly.
Men in Uniform
This is another 1970s San Francisco Halloween celebration.
A Boy Scout and a sailor have fallen in lust.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Professor Desbonnet Day
Professor Edmond Desbonnet (1867-1953) was a French academic and photographer who popularized physical culture in late 19th and early 20th C. France. He helped found one of the worlds first fitness magazines, La Culture Physique, and pioneered the concept of gym workouts for health. His methods were so popular that he founded the first known chain of membership gyms. Today we will look at some of his photos, as well as some that others did on his behalf.
As you can see above, the Professor practiced what he preached.
Book Revival
David Chapman is someone all of us who admire vintage physical culture photos should be thankful for. He has not only curated and preserved some major physique photographers' work, but he has also written, co-written, and translate books on the subject. Above we see the the cover of his translated reissue of Prof. Desbonnet's The Kings of Strength.
Celebrity Wrestlers
This photo is from Desbonnet's book The Kings of Wrestling. While I'm not certain that he had his own stable of wrestlers, we can assume that he helped with the training of this group.
Outlier
This photo appeared in the important magazine La Culture Physique as an example
of Prof. Desbonnet's results. I'm not sure if G. Rasso was the model or the photographer.
FWIW, the style doesn't match my Desbonnet collection very well.
Overhang
Something tells me that someone was holding the model's legs for this photo.
Having said that, I still find it impressive.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
WWII Australian Troops Getting a Bath
Our theme for the day is World War II Australian troops getting their bath.
We start with some fellow happy to help out their friend.
New Guinea I
The location for the mass bath was Nadzab Air Strip in New Guinea, 1943.
If you look closely there's a money shot in the left background.
At sea
I didn't know they had bathtubs on WWII ships, but the Australian War Museum
says that this photo was made at sea in 1945.
Malaya 1941
These Australian troops are heading down a river bank to have a bath in Malaya in 1941.
Within a few months, most of them would be prisoners of the Japanese following a
disastrously ill conceived and executed British defense of the peninsula.
Monday, October 28, 2024
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Fred Hare and John Kemble
Although my source did not give a photographer's name for this 1951 shot
of Fred Hare and John Kemble, I get a strong AMG feeling from it.
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Korea
Somewhere in Korea in May of 1951, Michael Rougier photographed these two GIs. They seem to have thought they covered their packages, but the man at left didn't quite get there.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
FKK Archery Day
Our theme today is FKK archery, and our first photo goes way back to 1911.
The man with the spear is very impressive to me.
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1959
It might have been chilly when this photo was made in 1959.
We can see a guy in a heavy robe in the right background.
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