Peter Sanos

Peter Sanos poses here for Russ Warner.

 

John Smith

Russ Warner took this photo of a heavily oiled John Smith.

 

Russ Warner Quarterly Series

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Ray Harper

I recently found this "new" photo of Ray Harper,

a model who has appeared  here in the past.

 

Charles Berendo

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Giroux and Norton

Russ Warner posed Armand Giroux and Joe Norton

back to back against a Classical column.

 

Unknown I

This is the first of two unknown (to me) models in today's series.

 

Irwin Koszewski

We should always remember that Russ Warner started out as a successful competitive bodybuilder before he went on to an even more successful career as a photographer.  These front and back photos of Irwin Koszewski, aka Irwin Zabo, are examples of Mr. Warner's magazine work.  In fact, he is said to have done more bodybuilder magazine covers than anyone else.  If there is interest, I can do a complete set of those covers for a future series.

 

Frank Stagg

Not even Russ Warner escaped the 1950 kitschy trend of fish net props.

The model here is Frank Stagg.

 

Dick Fenley

Although reasonably well developed, Dick Fenley is one 

of the least beefy models in Russ Warners portfolio.

 

Unknown II

Mr. Warner posed our second unknown model behind a very large cogwheel.

 

Norm Tousley

I can't think of a better way to end today's series

than with this fine shot of Norm Tousley.

 

Russ Warner

Jack Thomas and Jack Lalanne appear here in a shot from their legendary session with Russ Warner.  We have Mr. Warner to thank for 98% of the nude photos extant of Mr. Lalanne

because he refused to give up his negatives when asked to years later.

 

Jim Smith

Russ Warner took this reclining photo of Jim Smith.

 

Bill Kugler

The tan lines are quite visible in this Russ Warner photo of Bill Kugler.

 

Russ Warner

Neel Bate, an artist in his own right and model for George Platt Lynes, 

posed for Russ Warner with a wagon wheel and a statuette.

 

Bill Kugler

Closing out part one with Bill Kugler by Russ Warner.

 

Jack Lalanne Day, Part 1 - Nudes

 Jack Lalanne famously went around to all the physique photographers for whom he had posed nude and asked them to hand over their negatives when he launched his TV show.  Russ Warner famously refused, and thanks to him, we have some great frontals of this model.  I have mixed opinions on Mr. Lalanne's character.  He was quoted during and after his lifetime as having made some pretty strongly homophobic remarks.  That lifetime was 96 years, so he must have been doing something right when it came to fitness, a concept he introduced to millions of Americans. 

 

Wheel

The watermark removal on this one leaves something to be desired.

For a different (and better) shot of Jack Lalanne and that wheel,

click on his name in the column at the right of this page.

 

Cropped

Someone cropped this from an item in that legendary Russ Warner 

duo photo shoot of Jack Lalanne with Jack Thomas.

I'll post more of those in a later series.