Boy, did I sell Dennis Bell short. Bell, the owner of the entire Athletic Model Guild catalogue, is the visionary founder of the Bob Mizer Foundation. With a crew of volunteers, he's been cataloguing ...

After he died in 1992, the extensive archives of Bob Mizer, founder of the legendary pre-Stonewall beefcake factory Athletic Model Guild, were unceremoniously chucked in a dumpster—letters, photos, ...

Yesterday your favorite Radical took some time off and bicycled over Manhattan to see the Bob Mizer show at The gallery made the wise decision to show only a few conventional portraits. Much of the ...

Bob Mizer never thought of himself as an artist. But a terrific exhibition at Western Project demonstrates that the journeyman photographer, hard-working entrepreneur and wide-eyed fan of the male ...

The name Bob Mizer may not mean anything to you, but his story is the stuff of legend. In 1945, the 24-year-old spent his time lurking around California’s Muscle Beach, convincing its bulky, ...

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Physique Pictorial Volume 16 Number 4, February 1968. Cover by Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen). (with permission of Bob Mizer Foundation, Inc.) LOS ANGELES — Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland are to queer ...

I`d love to know exactly what was in the heads of model Ray Robirds and photographer Bob Mizer during the shoot in which Robirds, his right arm slung around a burro`s neck, sports nothing but a ...