Showing posts with label fig leaf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fig leaf. Show all posts
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Fig Leaf Day

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I know fig leaf photos always leave us wishing for more, but they can be fun, so here  we go with ten.  First up is Bohemian strong man and ...
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Lunge

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I'm left wondering if a knife or sword was off to the left in this lunging photo.  
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Desbonnet

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A very reputable European website attributes this to Prof. Edmond Desbonnet.   The composition and staging make me think of Von Gloeden, alt...
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French Bush

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We get a bit of a look at the model's bush in this French physical culture photo.  
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Interesting

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I think this is the most interesting photo of the series.  We have mirrors giving us  some derriere views, and I find the interplay of the m...
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Constantine Stelanov

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This handsome discus holder is Constantine Stelanov.  
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Modest wader

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OK, it's really a lily pad, not a fig leaf, but I had to include this.  
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Slippage

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Is it just me, or was there a bit of slippage of the fig leaf in this photo?  
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Rope pull

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Pulling on a rope really shows off this model's upper body muscles.  
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Eugen Sandow

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I can think of no better way to conclude a fig leaf series than the immortal Eugen Sandow as photographed by Warwick Brookes.  
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Friday, December 6, 2024

Matching fig leaves

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This quarted had matching fig leaves and two Kaiser Bill mustaches.  
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Artistic Pose

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I've posted one or two other photos from the session which produced the rather artistic number above. Believe it or not, these were used...
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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Fig Leaf

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This is C.A. Bank photographed by Hanna of London in 1932.  
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Sunday, September 25, 2022

Fig Leaf Popup

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Today I'm doing a quick popup series on muscular early 20th C. men in fig leaves.   We start with F.W. Guerin who was a student of Prof....
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Drama

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We get some dramatic posing from this well muscled unknown model.  
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Unknown hailing a cab

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The fig leaf on this unknown model looks like it was added after the fact, leaving me thinking there was a full frontal nude at some point. ...
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Yuganson

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Finishing our fig leaf popup with a 1912  Russian photo of a model named Yuganson.  
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Fig Leaves, Part 1 - Painted-on Coverups

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Generally speaking, well known late 19th and early 20th Century wrestlers and strong men didn't often appear fully frontally nude in pho...
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First Prize

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This is Ange Camilli, and he won first prize for beauty.  
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A different version?

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I think I may have an original unaltered version of this one in my files somewhere. Who knows?  I might even have posted it, but I'm too...
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