Showing posts with label david asnis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label david asnis. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2022

Al Urban Day, Part 1 - Known Models

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Today we have a double feature of Al Urban images, known and unknown.  This guy not only starts part one, but is also said to have started A...
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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Whatever happened to . . . David Asnis

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Israel David Asnis was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1911, the son of Russian immigrants.  When he was a teenager, his family moved to...
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1939 Cover

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Someone cropped out the name of the other model who appears on this cover with David Asnis. Mr. Asnis placed in several AAU bodybuilding com...
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Lonely derriere

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I've only been able to find one derriere photo of David Asnis, and here it is. Known for his amazing abdominals, the rear view isn't...
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Autographed

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This autographed photo of David Asnis is presumed to be  by Al Urban, and I can't tell if the trunks are drawn on or real.  
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Brennus the Gaul?

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Al Urban, especially in his early years of photography, liked to picture bodybuilders in Classical settings.  I think this is his take on th...
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Strength and Health

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This March, 1940 magazine cover features David Asnis and an article lead-in on "Sex and American Youth."  I'm sure the photos ...
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1940

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In an odd coincidence, I was looking through family photos last night and saw one of my aunts in a head shot where she was posed exactly lik...
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Mixed message

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The style, fonts, and layout of this exercise guide are post World War II, but the photos  of a young David Asnis look earlier.  As you will...
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Army

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David Asnis enlisted in the U.S. Army in January of 1942 in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack.  His war record was mostly lost in a fire i...
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1940 again in 1948

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This is an example of the drawn in posing strap that many physique photographers used to try to avoid prosecution.  The buyers would rub off...
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Latest photo

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I found this undated photo of David Asnis on a website that chronicles mid-20th Century  bodybuilders.  From the looks of him, he could be i...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Alternating Al Urban, starting with David Asnis

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For Wednesday, I'm alternating nude and semi-nude photos of Al Urban, with all but the final two being pairs of the same models.  We sta...
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Asnis, All American Athlete?

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Well, David Asnis was a New York men's fashion model, not an all American athlete, but that didn't keep him from appearing on the co...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021

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I can't do another Al Urban "small one" series without including handsome David Asnis. It's worth repeating that it was Mr...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

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This is perhaps the most interesting Al Urban magazine cover. Somehow, a 1940-ish photo he took of David Asnis ended up  on the cover of a p...
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

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David Asnis has shown up in "Small Ones" themes before, but I don't think I have ever posted this Al Urban photo of him. ...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

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David Asnis was a New York fashion model who encouraged Al Urban to push the limits of the time with his fully nude work.  I find this ...
Monday, December 3, 2018

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I can’t seem to get through one of these “small one” series without a picture of David Asnis, a favorite model of Al Urban who p...
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