John Palatinus Day

Bryan B. recently sent me some "new" frontal nudes by John Palatinus, a 1950's photographer whose work I expressed admiration for in a thank you note for another of Bryan's contributions.  As usual, Mr. B. quite promptly sent me some great photos, this one of Jim Tanner among them.  I added several of Bryan's contributions to some of my own collection for today's series.

 

Bob Ireland

Bob Ireland is meant to appear dockside in this Palatinus photo from 1957.

 

Don

I think Palatinus was going for a builder's look in this 

1958 photo of Don Marcus with a hard hat, ladder, and rope.

 

Grecian Guild

Grecian Guild Quarterly did an extensive spread of John Palatinus' photos in this edition.

Unfortunately, I don't know the models name, but he looks a bit like Matt Carroll.

 

Chuck I

This is another of the Palatinus photos generously provided by Bryan B.

The model is Chuck Massey and the photo is from the mid-1950s.

 

Chuck II

Here we see Chuck Massey again in a promotional piece where his crotch has been crudely marked out.  Quite a few physique photographers did this in the 1940s and 50s, but most of them were more artful, drawing on thongs or posing straps.  Courtny was a trade name Palatinus used.

 

Jerry

Part of the uniform is missing in this 1958 sailor shot of Jerry Hardy.

 

Linn

Linn Wickizer looks great in this Palatinus posing strap shot,

despite the less than optimal image quality.

 

Matt

Until recently all but one of my frontal nudes 

by John Palatinus were of this model, Matt Carroll.

 

Dick

This Palatinus photo of Dick Powers made the back cover of Tomorrow's Man.

 

Louis Igout Day

A medium sized European museum recently published a group of photos identified as by Louis Igout, one of my favorite 19th C. photographers.  His work is sometimes confused with that of Hermann Heid, and this find moved some of my collection out of the uncertain  column, as well as providing quite a few "new" items.  We start with an incongruously seated boxer.  Haven't seen that before.

 

Pondering

These two seem to be pondering the pole.

I can relate, as I've pondered a few poles in my time.

 

Stocky derriere

I'm not 100% certain, but I think this is a stocky model who has appeared in a number of my 

earlier Igout series.  As you've probably guessed, I'm quite fond of him.  My only disappointment 

with it is that this was only "new" image of him in the batch of Igout's work I recently found.

 

Dying warrior

This looks like Igout's version of the Classical dying warrior motif.

 

Early dynamic tension

By all accounts, Igout worked in the 1870s, so this might be the earliest 

example of the "dynamic tension" method of exercise and bodybuilding.  

Charles Atlas made a good living off it 60-70 years later.

 

Fight

There's supposed to be some sort of fight going on here,

but I'm not sure it's exactly convincing.

 

Moi?

This Igout model seems to be saying,

"Moi?  I wouldn't think of doing such a thing."

 

20th Century Odds and Ends, Part 1 - Beefcake

I'm springing a double feature on y'all today, and part one is from my random beefcake file folder.

This well lighted and very handsome gentleman makes a nice start.

 

Grinning

I think we can guess why he's grinning.  And that fru-fru furniture is 

too far over the top even for Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy.

 

May, 1956

This apparently amateur item is from May, 1956 . . .

or at least that's when it was printed.