We'll be listing new books every Monday.. (and maybe some days in between)! SAVE US AS A FAVORITE. Come back & check us out! This is AMG Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild 1000 Model Directory! A beautifully packaged LARGE two volume book set with satin ribbon markers! LIMITED TO 5,000 copies -- this is #3488. You will spend HOURS and HOURS browsing through these books! 1000 Model Directory by Dian Hanson (2016). 2 Large Hardback books in Slip case.
In 1945 Bob Mizer began taking photographs of strapping young men on Muscle Beach in Venice, California. In December of that year he formed the Athletic Model Guild to market his photos, and physique photography was born. Before Mizer there were bodybuilders and men who photographed them, but AMG photos, even those of the same men, were different, subtly provocative, discretely aimed at a gay audience. They weren't nude, but showed as much as the law allowed in 1945. In 1951 Mizer launched Physique Pictorial, America's first indisputably gay magazine. By the late'50s Mizer had photographed over 1,000 men. In 1957 he published a catalogue featuring all his men, titled 1000 Model Directory. In 1968 a second 1000 Model Directory followed, with the men photographed in the intervening years. The little 98-page books became instant collectibles, but the photos were so small, 12 to a page, that they were as frustrating to view as they were titillating.
TASCHEN's two-volume edition 1000 Model Directory prints from Mizer's original 4 x 5 negatives to present these handsome hunks in stunning clarity. This book is HARD to FIND! CHECK OUT ALL OUR OTHER BOOKS! Photography, History, Gay Interest, Beefcake, Bruce Weber, Guys + MORE! For anyone looking for books on these topics or photographers...
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