This is Buck Kelly by J. Brian d/b/a Calafran Studio.

 

Calafran Studio took this picture of Brian Idol in cowboy drag.

Finger pistols?  Really?  That was lame even in the 60's.

This unidentified model appeared on page 22 of Golden Boys, 

a short-lived Calafran Studio magazine product.

   This post by JamesIV helped round out my collection of Calafran Studio photos.  See more of his posts at http://menfrombackthen.blogspot.com/ .

Calafran Studio

Photographer J. Brian and publisher Bob Damron founded Calafran Studio in San Francisco in 1967 in the wake of the liberalization of U.S. obscenity laws.  (Those of you of a certain age will no doubt remember the Damron guide book for all things gay across the U.S.A.)  Calafran published magazines in a cheap 5 by 7 inch format, including Golden Boys and Times Square, and they also sold sets of photos early on.  Although several archivists state that other photographers besides J. Brian worked for Calafran, I can't find any of photos credited to them by name.  Today I am posting five pictures that are not labeled as J. Brian's and not obviously magazine pages.  

We start with this rather sullen looking young man.

Dean Summers posed by a doorway for this Calafran photo.

This photo was identified by a reputable on-line collector sales site as a Calafran photo, but I've seen that system of catalog numbers before, and it seems like it was for another studio.  

Could more than one publisher have used this or a similar system?

This image of Buck Kelly is the best I could do for a Calafran photo for the Bum Brigade.  Perhaps because of the 1967 liberalization of frontal nudity, I can find very few Calafran derriere shots.

Although certainly not the first to feature leather themed material, Calafran did venture into some mild material of that sort relatively early.  Except for the boots, this 

unidentified model comes across as more denim than leather.