Dick Falcon Day

This is Dick Falcon, a 1930s bodybuilder who took up photography himself.  Today we will look at some of his work.  I don't know if this is a self portrait or if someone else took it.

 

Tom Crabbe

This derriere view is Tom Crabbe.

 

Of or by?

I haven't been able to figure out if this April 1936 magazine cover 

is a photo of or if it is by Dick Falcon.

 

Unknown 345

This unknown Dick Falcon model had catalog number 345.

 

Dale Curry

Dale Curry was a popular model whose career extended from the late 1940s into the early 1960s.  He appeared in a Dick Falcon photo for MANual magazine and also in an ad, but I can find no more photos of him attributed to Mr. Falcon.  The ad promised at least six.  Anybody have more?

 

Year, but no names

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Bill Stewart

Dick Falcon took at least half a dozen photos of Bill Stewart in the 1950s.

 

Darryl Powers

The beard and long hair may surprise some of you, but this is Champion model Darryl Powers, aka Lance Ponton, in a photo by Dick Falcon.  Mr. Falcon and Walter Kundzic of Champion Studio partnered for a while in the Sunset Beach Club nudist resort where Darryl worked and modeled.

 

Trio

The staging and hair styles in this one make me think that 

it was from early in Dick Falcon's career as a photographer.

 

Another unknown

Our last photo by Dick Falcon is a kneeling unknown model.

 

Billy Lemacks

Dick Falcon took this photo of a trophy holding Billy Lemacks.

 

Dick Falcon

Something tells me that this photo was made early in Dick Falcon's career.

 

Falcon

This unknown duo was photographed by Dick Falcon,

an associate of Walter Kundzicz of Champion.

 

Bill

 

This is Bill Stewart by Falcon.

Cover Man, Two Names

I made this composite of the two known magazine covers featuring Darryl Powers/Lance Ponton.

At left we see Darryl by Champion at the beach for JR., "The Boys Guide to Physical Fitness."  Yeah, that's right if you consider masturbation to be exercise.  At right in a photo generously provided by blog viewer Calorman, we see him as Lance Ponton by Falcon on the cover of Tomorrow's Man, a bodybuilder mag that was also favored by gays.  Lance is shown as "Mr. Florida," but multiple searches found no record of him having held that AAU title.  Some other Mr. Florida?  In any case, I'm not surprised that he didn't use his nude modeling name if he did do competitive bodybuilding.

 

Dick Falcon Day

Dick Falcon was a 1930s bodybuilder who went on to a fairly successful career as a photographer.  That's Dick himself above with a classic 30s hairstyle, and it may have been a selfie done with a timer.  Mr. Falcon is better known for his "legitimate" publicity photos of bodybuilders, but his nudes are worth a look and have been featured here before.  In another note that may interest some of you, Dick Falcon is said to have been involved with Walter Kundzicz of Champion in the Sunset Beach Club, a nudist resort in Florida that had Darryl Powers as a resident model.  Look for a "whatever happened to" series on Mr. Powers with a Dick Falcon photo of him here on the blog in a week or so.

 

Bill

This photo of Bill Stewart is one of Dick Falcon's more polished studio shots from the 50s.

 

Dale Curry

Dale Curry appears here in a legal beefcake photo from a 50's magazine.

Mr. Curry posed frontally nude quite a bit, but apparently not for Dick Falcon.

 

Bill again . . . or is it Jim

I made this composite to show how Dick Falcon (or some editor) reversed a picture and removed it from the background for a magazine page.  Oh, and every other picture I've seen of this fellow lists his given name as Bill, not Jim, Stewart.  You'd think they'd get it right for the magazine.

 

Questionable provenance

Dick Falcon was a bodybuilder himself and photographed bodybuilders almost exclusively.

So how does this fellow end up in more than one well curated collection attributed to him?

I suppose everybody has their off moments.  I know I do.