Saturday, August 22, 2026

FKK Non-Germans

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The FKK movement was a very German proposition, but their publications did occasionally feature photos from similar organizations based in o...
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Spain

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Spanish athlete Jose Montero appeared in 1932.  

USA

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Here we have an American reading a nudist newspaper  while sitting on the tailgate of a station wagon.  
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Canada

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This Canadian gardener is from the 1980s.  
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Dane

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Hungarians

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It was 1928 when these members of a Budapest fitness club posed together.  
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Austrians

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I don't have a date for this Austrian photo, but the man  at center seems to be holding a 1960s type microphone.  

British

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Our British entry is a guy being pushed into a swimming pool.  

France

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Happy Frenchmen emerge from the water.  
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Netherlands

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Finishing the set we have a Dutchman working on a holiday cottage in 1973.  
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Friday, August 21, 2026

PaJaMa Collective Series

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Our series today includes a mix of PaJaMa Collective photos, some from the Smithxonian,  such as the study of Arthur Dunne above, and others...

Todd Bolender

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Here we see a vacation photo made at Provincetown in 1947. The subject is ballet dancer Todd Bolender.  
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Smithsonian Study II

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This unknown African-American fellow appears in at least half a dozen "down and dirty"  low quality photographic studies from the ...
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George Platt Lynes 1941

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This 1941PaJaMa photo of George Platt Lynes looks like something he would have done himself. It is part of the collection of the Cleveland M...
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Donald Windham

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This is Donald Windham on Fire Island in 1938.  
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Jared in the Foam, Twice

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We always have a frontal nude of Jared French in these PaJaMa series, not only because  he was quite prolific about posing nude, but also be...
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Classic

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There's something timelessly classic about this photograph of Sandy Campbell and a dog. Paul Cadmus is said to have taken this picture i...
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Smithsonian Study III

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Here is the previously shown African-American study model with a friend.  

Outlier

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I have no information on this photo, but I stongly suspect someone colorized it. I can find no evidence of PaJaMa having used color film, bu...
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Smithsonian Study IV

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Closing with another blurry study, the model for which I rather admire.