Bob Delmonteque and Andy Buck

Andy Buck seems to be getting a nice grab at Bob Delmonteque

 in this Douglas of Detroit duo photo.  Lucky guy!

 

Douglas of Detroit

Of all of today's finds, I'm most pleased with this Doug Juleff photo of Bob Delmonteque for several reasons.  First, one can never have too many works by that pairing.  Second, it's above average even for such a high calibre operation,  And last, it somehow survived destruction by the Detroit Police.  Given that I found it on a resale site that specializes in estate sales, I am fairly certain that it was sent to a buyer before the police raid and held for the rest of his life.  Now we have it.

 

Bob and Bob

Bob Delmonteque, Bob deWeese, and their tan lines posed

ankle deep in Lake Michigan for this one.

 

Bob Delmonteque Solo

Closing the Doug Juleff outdoor series with an artful solo shot of Bob Delmonteque.

 

Bob Delmonteque

Bob Delmonteque took this self portraint in 1953 when he was still in Michigan.

 

Bob Delmonteque by Doug Juleff

Doug Juleff, aka Douglas of Detroit, rarely worked outdoors, 

but this photo of Bob Delmonteque is a nice exception.

 

Bob Delmonteque

This self portrait of Bob Delmonteque is the second of three 

photos in today's series from the Leslie-Lohman Museum.

 

Bob

This is the first of three magazine pages with text in today's series and by far the most interesting.  Anthony Guyther, the man behind Vulcan Studio, took the photo of Bob Delmonteque, a model who became a noteworthy photographer himself.  The article is actually a thoughtful discourse on the economics and interrelated nature of the men who did physique photography.  Worth a read.

 

The Tim T. Collection - Grecian Guild Pictorial of June, 1959

Thanks to a generous donation by Tim T., I have recently received a treasure trove of 

classic physique magazines.  In the first of many series coming out of this, today I am posting

 in its entirety the June, 1959 edition of Grecian Guild Pictorial.  As you might expect there are

 a lot of thinly veiled homosexual themes inside, along with some beautiful photography.  

The cover is Glenn Bishop as photographed by Bob Delmonteque.

 

Pages 20-21

I've posted photos of Dennis Christensen, Jr. Mr. Utah, in a previous series 

about a Utah bodybuilding competition.  Those, however, were by Bruce of LA,

 while this one (left) is by Bob Delmonteque.  Bob Anthony took 

the picture of New York high school athlete Bob Steinel at right.  

 

Squatters

This was left over from a recent Bob Delmonteque series, and I was wondering what 

to do with it.  Then it hit me . . . squatters.  So that's today's theme.  The photographer isn't known, 

but it does not look like Douglas of Detroit's work to me.

 

Bob Delmonteque, Part 1 - Nudes of the man himself

It's been over a year since I devoted a whole series to Bob Delmonteque, so I decided to do a double feature.  Part one has a wide variety of nudes of Bob himself, while part two is photos he took of other models, unfortunately not nude.  We start with a very blonde Mr. Delmonteque by Douglas of Detroit.  An interesting fact that I just discovered recently is that he was in his 30s when his modeling career took off.  Click on the label for earlier posts with more biographical details.

 

Trademark Douglas of Detroit

I still haven't figured out if this well known technique by Doug Juleff was a double exposure or a composite.  Whichever it was, Bob Delmonteque appears in several versions.

 

California?

After moving to California, Bob Delmonteque posed for several of the local photographers 

including Russ Warner and Dave Martin.  One of them probably took this unattributed

 photo as it does not look at all like Douglas of Detroit's work.

 

Oiled with a friend

The unknown model with Bob Delmonteque looks Latino, but I haven't been able 

to find a name for him.  He appears in several other Douglas of Detroit photos.

 

Slumberland

In yet another unattributed photo, a reclining Bob Delmonteque seems to be taking a nap.

Based on his rather youthful appearance, I'd venture a guess that this one was by Doug Juleff.

 

Bob Delmonteque, Part 2 - G-Rated Photos by Bob

Bob Delmonteque was one of several models and bodybuilders who ended up behind the camera.  While he began taking photos while still in Michigan, most of his work was done in California, and he seems to have given it up when his training and gym business took off.  Too bad, that.  Although he did take some frontal nudes, having seen what happened to Doug Juleff in Detroit, he kept most of his photographic work on the mild side.  Today we look at five of those.  This is Don Reyes.

 

Dick

The posing strap looks almost like a clamshell in this photo of Dick Harrison.  Bob Delmonteque used this ruined California building in several photos, including another in today's series.

 

Vic

Detroit was the scene for this impressive Delmonteque shot 

of world class competitive bodybuilder Vic Seipke.

 

Bob

Bob Rome sports a Boston Blackie mustache in this Delmonteque photo.