Don and Kip

Bob Mizer of AMG took this photo of Don Fuller and Kip Behar.

 

Kip Behar

Chuck Renslow is known to have made at least one working trip to Los Angeles,

and that's probably where he took this exceptionally lighted shot of Kip Behar.

The picture appeared in January of 1959 in Gym Magazine.

 

Kip Behar

Closing the Pat Milo set with a photo of Kip Behar

that I somehow didn't post until now.

 

Kip Behar

I found out where this one of Kip Behar is from, but a photographer was not named.

Let's see if any of you can take that clue and go somewhere.

 

Kip Behar Day

It's Kip Behar Day, and we start with an AMG photo.  I've commented in the past about how certain models worked for several different photographers, and this guy may be the most prolific in that regard.  I have photos of Kip Behar reliably attributed to nine studios, and that's ten if you count two different operations run by Richard Fontaine, Apollo and Dick Fontaine.  The complete (I think) list is Apollo, Fontaine, Kris, AMG, Bob Delmonteque, Spartan, Vulcan (both in New York and Los Angeles), Pat Milo, Bruce of LA. and Jack Sidney.  I'm only posting work by seven of those today, plus an unattributed.  I may do a set with all of them later.

 

Pat Milo I

Kip Behar goes full frontal in the first of two photos by Pat Milo.

 

Apollo

Apollo Studio produced this image of Kip flexing while kneeling.

 

Bob Delmonteque

Bob Delmonteque took this picture of Kip Behar in the 

window of a ruin in Los Angeles called The Castle.

 

Bruce I

This very rare color slide of Kip Behar is by Bruce of LA.

 

Unattributed

I tried three search engines and could come up with no photographer for this one.

 

Pat Milo II

Although he took quite a few full nudes of Kip Behar, Pat Milo also made some images that could be widely published, and this is a good example.  It's so good that I don't even mind the oil.

 

Bruce of LA II

Our second photo of the day by Bruce of LA shows Kip from behind.

 

Kris

Chuck Renslow of Kris Studio took this shot of Kip Behar in bed.

 

A last bit of excellence

I've saved what may be the best for last, at least in a photographic aesthetic sense.

The lighting, the pose, the stance, and Kip's expression are priceless.

The photograph is by Vulcan Studio.

 

Kip Behar

Bob Mizer took this photo of Kip Behar during his "Mom's Punchbowl" phase.

 

Kip Behar

The above photo of Kip Behar is unattributed, but if I had to guess, 

I'd go with either Bruce of LA or Pat Milo.  Frequent contributor and 

commentator Cambria posted the 1958 Pat Milo shot below on a 

popular bulletin board style website.  Thanks, Cambria!

 

Kip Behar

Kip Behar got his start with Vulcan at age 16 in New York,

but this photo looks like it was made when he was older.

 

Kip Behar

Kip Behar posed nude or seminude for at least half a dozen photographers,

and this photo is by Apollo Studio.  There's no way he wasn't making my list.

 

Jack Sidney

Kip Behar still lived in New York and went by "Sol" when Jack Sidney took this photo.

I think Kip was still in high school, and would you look at those muscles!

 

Vulcan

Anthony Guyther was the man behind Vulcan Studio, and his model here is the always amazing 

Kip Behar.  Both Mssrs. Guyther and Behar moved from New York to California in the early 1950s.