Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland aren’t exactly Titian, but their erotic and often witty photographs and drawings, respectively, had an indelible impact in the second half of the 20th century, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever wonder where your ideal of the male physique came from? Chances are, it’s Bob Mizer. Oh, sure, you like to think you arrived at your concept of male beauty by natural selection, but Bob Mizer — ...

Photographer Bob Mizer, who died in 1992, founded the Athletic Model Guild in 1945 and Physique Pictorial in 1951, debuted Tom of Finland, shot Alan Ladd, Victor Mature and Arnold Schwarzenegger, ...

Here’s one dead tree magazine worth its weight. The Bob Mizer Foundation, named for noted photog Bob Mizer, is now publishing print editions of Physique Pictorial, the long-running magazine devoted to ...

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 ...