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Publicado por Gay Sunshine Press, 1982
Librería: Caveat Emptor Used and Rare Books, Bloomington, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Soft cover. Condición: Good.
Publicado por AMG: Athletic Model Guild, Los Angeles, 1991
Librería: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Revista / Publicación Original o primera edición
Magazine. 32p. 5.25x8.25 inches, illustrated with b&w explicit and graphic full-frontal photos of the models with catalog numbers relating to available VHS and Beta video tapes as well as cover and inner cover stills from the wrestling videos, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps.
Publicado por Gay Sunshine Press, 1982
ISBN 10: 0917342941ISBN 13: 9780917342943
Librería: Whitledge Books, Austin, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Mizer, Bob [photography] Ilustrador. 1st Edition. PHYSIQUE, A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE ATHLETIC MODEL GUILD, edited by Winston Leyland, essay by Timothy Lewis, photographs by Bob Mizer (founder of A.M.G.), softcover, probable first edition, photos (B/W and color), 1982. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no marks, tears, or dog-ears. Not a library book nor remainder. There is no bookplate nor signature of prior owner. Pictorial wraps are in very good condition (a few creases). 11 x 8 ½, 92 pages, 12 ounces XX [Wikipedia] The Athletic Model Guild, or AMG, was founded by Bob Mizer in December 1945. During those post-war years, United States censorship laws allowed women, but not men, to appear in various states of undress in what were referred to as "art photographs". Mizer began his business by taking pictures of men that he knew. His subjects would often pose for pictures which illustrated fitness tips and the like but were also viewed as homoerotic material. Mizer established the Guild in December 1945 after spending the earlier part of the year taking photographs at Venice Beach and the offices were based around his life-long home. The formula used by AMG consisted of images (moving and still) of hunky young men doing bodybuilding poses, or perhaps wrestling in pairs or acting out improvised scenes. Mizer did appear in court to face several charges over the years, including obscenity, drug use, and prostitution. Allegedly, Mizer's AMG models would sometimes earn extra money renting themselves out as gay for pay hustlers, but Mizer argued vigorously that it was not his business what they did on their own time. Despite some legal setbacks, AMG survived its many trials. The AMG material (sold in the form of photographic prints, magazines, and short films) slowly evolved over time, from altered images where the male genitalia were painted over or otherwise covered, to photographic prints where the models wore extremely skimpy posing straps, and then finally, as the changing laws allowed, to full nudity. He used his quarterly magazine, Physique Pictorial which featured other artists such as Tom of Finland, as means of advertising his material. Several bodybuilders and actors of the day got their start posing for Mizer and his friends at AMG. It is estimated that he shot over 10,000 men throughout the course of his career. Andy Warhol's protégé Joe Dallesandro was one of the many AMG models that even those not acquainted with Athletic Model Guild might be familiar with. Others included Ed Fury and Glenn Corbett of 77 Sunset Strip, and Susan Hayward and Alan Ladd. Bodybuilder and future Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger posed for AMG under Mizer in 1975. Editorials in Physique Pictorial claimed that AMG had 35,000 photographs in its library by 1957. Two years later, the figure had risen to 50,000. After Mizer's death in May 1992, Wayne Stanley, a friend and legal advisor, tended to his archives. In 2004 the company and its archives were sold to physique photographer Dennis Bell. Under Bell's reins, Athletic Model Guild continues to operate as Bob Mizer Foundation. The 1998 movie Beefcake, directed by Thom Fitzgerald, combines documentary footage with fictionalized dramatizations in an attempt to tell the story of Mizer and AMG.
Publicado por AMG: Athletic Model Guild, Los Angeles, 1991
Librería: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Revista / Publicación Original o primera edición
Magazine. First two issues, 32p. each, 5.25x8.25 inches, illustrated with b&w explicit and graphic full-frontal photos of the models with catalog numbers relating to available VHS and Beta video tapes as well as cover and inner cover stills from the wrestling videos, very good booklets in stapled pictorial wraps.
Publicado por Athletic Model Guild, Los Angeles, 1991
Librería: Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia
Revista / Publicación Original o primera edición
Softcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. 21cm x 13cm. [32], [32] pages, 2 volumes, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled self-wrappers. Catalogue of models from the later blatantly homoerotic years of Bob Mizer's AMG, the physique photography powerhouse behind the most popular of beefcake magazines. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic. Shipped Weight: .05 kilos.
Publicado por Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco, 1982
ISBN 10: 0917342941ISBN 13: 9780917342943
Librería: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Paperback. [96p] 8.5x11 inches, profusely illustrated with AMG b&w and color physique photos, very good first edition oversized trade paperback in pictorial wraps.
Librería: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, Australia
San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press, 1982. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [96], illustrated with erotic photography of male nudes. Physique Pictorial, published by Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was the first all-male and all-nude magazine in the United States. It is an example of a 'beefcake' magazine which published images of athletic and attractive young men primarily for a homosexual clientele, commencing prior to the relaxation of pornography laws in the 1960s, and continuing through to the 1990s. Interestingly, the magazine editors are well aware of the controversial nature of the magazine's content, and a number of articles relate to being the sensitivities of the material and the need for discretion in storing one's pictorial collection. As well as homoerotic photography Physique pictorial features black and white drawings by Spartacus, Art Bob, Bill McLane, Tristrano, Ted Kenton and numerous illustrations by the legendary Tom of Finland. Physique Pictorial ran from 1951 - 1990, during which social attitudes homosexuality, male sexuality and the depiction of the male nude saw rapid and distinct change. In this extensive run, spanning four decades, images of masculinity range from being veiled in a healthy lifestyle outdoors in the 50s where full nudity was illegal through to explicit depiction of gay subcultures such as S&M, bondage and leather fetishism of later decades and into a period where the impact of AIDS was being felt with particular brutality in the gay community. Physique. A pictorial history of the Athletic Model Guild is a scarce lifetime compilation of Mizer's iconic photographic depictions of male erotic masculinity.