All the while Al Urban was making and illegally distributing frontal male nudes in the 1940s and 50s, he continued to shoot work for bodybuilding magazines that did not allow nudity. Mr. Urban went to great lengths to conceal both his clandestine career and his sexuality, even going so far as to invent a fake wife and borrow a baby girl for a photo of himself as a doting father. This picture of Johnny Bousa is one of the better examples of Mr. Urban's "legitimate" work.
Les efforts considérables !
ReplyDeleteThe lengths they had to go through to protect themselves and their modèles. And the trials of not trying to offend or hurt their families :(
Not everyone went to the lengths Mr. Urban did. Most notably, Alonzo Hanagan, aka Lon of New York, was rather matter of fact about being gay. He was not, however, immune to the repression of the times, having been arrested at least twice for sending frontal male nudes through the mail.
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