23.7.11

storia della fotografia di nudo maschile 103

The number of pfotographers who made nude and "physique" portraiture from 1940's to 1960's (in 1968 censorship on male nude was unlocked) is countless. For many we only know the name and many, to complicate things, to escape legal problems used various pseudonyms. Peppino (Turin), Foto Grafo (Sweden), Jan Eyck, Art-Kraft, Belga Studios (Belgium), Capital Studio, Cavalier Photos (Los Angeles), Cobra Studio, Peter Bear (London), Rod Crowler, Eastern Models Associates, Elmer Ebersol (Los Angeles), Galaxy, Paul Gebbè (New York), Graham Studio (England), Hills Studios, Jimmy Caruso, BobCo, Frontier Boys... are some.
Alan B. Stone (Mark-One Studio) worked in Montreal; these pictures, shooted in 1962, feature famous 1960's model and bodybuilder Martin Reid:
John Barrington (1920-1991, aka Jean-Paul David aka Zodiac aka Riviera as he often shooted on French southern coasts; real name John Paignton) was one of Great Britain's most prolific photographers of the male nude and the most prosecuted by censorship. He has published a dozen books on art and photography, two novels, a number of plays and physique magazines, appeared at intervals, "Man-ifique!" and "Form-osus!" which featured popular european models. Barrington's perpetual attempts to publish his magazines ended in a disaster when, in 1981, he was raided once again by the police who confiscated and destroyed everything. The Barrington's remained works reveal a photographer who was a genius behind the camera but a disaster in the darkroom.Al McDuffie (California Models or Cal Models or ACME): http://www.reedmassengill.com/pgbiojb.html

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