Tag: beefcake
1950’s iconic beefcake magazine PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL is relaunched
In the 1950’s censorship was so strict it was nigh on impossible to get your hands on naked men ……well, photos of them at least. That started to change in 1951 when American photographer Bob Mizer found a way around the legal restrictions by making his naked models use athletic and bodybuilding poses like in…
#PutinShirtlessChallenge brings out Russian beefcake
Unless you were living on a deserted island for the past few months, you are fully aware that the world is going mad. Well, let’s qualify that more, there are certain looneys in power who should not be allowed out anywhere unless they are restrained by burly men in white coats. However instead of being…
Bob Mizer’s Beefcake (NSFW)
The legendary photographer Bob Mizer’s career really took off in 1947 when he was convicted of the unlawful distribution of obscene material through the US mail. He had always been one who was known for pushing boundaries in his work, and in an era when the mere suggestion of male nudity was not only frowned upon but…
Don Whitman’s 1950’s Beefcake Photographs
Don Whitman was one of the leading exponents of male physique photography back in the days when censorship and society in general expected the models to keep a modicum of decency in their poses. When he left the Navy after WW2 in 1947 he started the Western Photography Guild which remained active for the next…
