Random Beefcake

Today I am cleaning out some of my random beefcake folders.

I can't tell if this guy is dancing or casting a curse in someone's direction . . . or both.

 

I found this guy on a tumblr website with no information.

 

I think he lost something in the water.  Or maybe he's afraid of alligators.

 

All the information that came with this one was "1968."

 

I think this glum looking guy is a 1930-ish British athlete, but I can't remember his name.

 

George Platt Lynes Day

George Platt Lynes was nothing less than a genius of 20th Century photography, and his secret male nudes only came to full light after his death.  This photo of Ted Starkowski is a personal favorite.

 

Gordon Hansen posed for this beautifully lighted Lynes photo.

 

This photo might be the Lynes work the inspired a photo I mistakenly labeled

 as his earlier this year . . . or it might be another modern piece despite the reputable source. 

 

George Platt Lynes is best known to us today for his male nudes, but he made his living doing portraits of celebrities and the well-to-do.  This photo of gay author Somerset Maugham looking over an attractive young man is a personal favorite of mine from the celebrity category.

 

I don't know if the purplish cast visible in this picture was intentional or due to aging of the print.

Lynes wasn't known to use tinting, so it's probably the latter or some other reason.  Lynes never meant for these nudes to be exhibited, but he wisely donated them to the Kinsey Institute.

 

Lynes called this 1941 picture simply "Two Nudes," 

and the models were Tex Smutney and Buddy Stanley

 

Francis Burton Harrison III posed leaning against a desk 

in what is believed to have been Lynes' study ca. 1940.

 

1949 was the date of this Lynes photo of Francisco Moncion.

The cropped out head of the subject was a device used several 

times by Lynes in both his nude and non-nude photographs.

 

Jack Fontan posed for several Lynes photos in and around this unfinished door frame.

 

This is Harvey Young, a gym owner Lynes photographed on a 1947 visit to Hollywood.

He took pictures of a number of celebrities over the years.

 

Physique Models and Dogs

Tuesday's theme is men and dogs, 

and we start with an unknown with a poodle.

Edited to add:  Jack Brazil by Pat Milo according to James IV.  Thanks!

 

Here's yet another scene from one of Bob Mizer's rooftop studio setups,

and that may be the same dog that appears later today in a movie still.

 

Paul Gibson got a whole page in a beefcake magazine,

but he had to share it with a skinny dog who looks happier than he does.

 

I think this is lifted from the AMG movie Boy Factory, 

but I don't know the models' or the dog's names.

 

Pat Milo's posing ultra-masculine John Manning with a puppy was a juxtaposition that reached masterpiece levels.  I can't help but imagine John asking,  "It's not gonna pee on me, is it?"