I'm closing the first part of today's set with an item that is more of a curiosity than an art piece. This cover photo of Rich Potoczek was taken by Edward Quirk before he started doing business as Metecue. When liberalization hit in the late 1960s, Mr. Quirk switched to high volume full nudity and stopped using his name, if that's what it really was. Some say it was a pseudonym to start with.
Mr Quirk changin’ with the times.
ReplyDeleteThough other physique photographers stopped work as they found it too vulgar and away from the aesthetics of male beauty they espoused. From art to trash as one physique photographer said….:\
"Art to trash." That pretty much sums things up in the immediate post-liberalization era. Artistic male nude photography returned by the mid-70s, but it wasn't technically physique photography any more.
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