RARE Vintage Bob MIZER AMG Famous JOHN MANNING & Friends & Full Moons
Item History & Price
This listing is for a vintage 4x5" single weight vintagephoto by Bob Mizer of young John Manning, Ron Collette, and Rick Cule. This is likely a still taken during the filming of one of Mizer's wrestling films dating to the 60s. John manning is well known to collectors, as he was photographed by a number of the physique greats, including Dave Martin, from whom I purchased 8x10 studio shots of the well-hung Manning. This photo is near-pristine with a high-gloss sharp image.&n...bsp; It's been carefully handled and sleeved.
BobMizer, starting in the1940s, spent 48 years making photos and films for his Athletic ModelGuild, and, in 1945 and for 41 years, publishing Physique Pictorial, America’sfirst, gay physique magazine.
By the 1960s, Bob Mizer’s LA "compound" became home to dozens of his models, who lived outdoors amongthe chickens, geese, goats and monkeys, and various props including statuary, Christmas trees and others that featured in his increasingly quirky films andphotography.PhysiquePictorial was a magazine of his and others' photos, profiles, artwork andopinion. Bob was one of the physique photographer greats with Dave Martin, Douglas of Detroit, Bruce Bellas, and Lon Hannagan. An excellent newer double volume of his 1957"1000 Model Catalog" models was published in 2016 in collaborationwith the Bob Mizer Foundation, with full size photos and excellent history.Thelarge format book on Mizer's work "BOB'S WORLD" was published byTaschen in 2015.
BobMizer, starting in the1940s, spent 48 years making photos and films for his Athletic ModelGuild, and, in 1945 and for 41 years, publishing Physique Pictorial, America’sfirst, gay physique magazine.
By the 1960s, Bob Mizer’s LA "compound" became home to dozens of his models, who lived outdoors amongthe chickens, geese, goats and monkeys, and various props including statuary, Christmas trees and others that featured in his increasingly quirky films andphotography.PhysiquePictorial was a magazine of his and others' photos, profiles, artwork andopinion. Bob was one of the physique photographer greats with Dave Martin, Douglas of Detroit, Bruce Bellas, and Lon Hannagan. An excellent newer double volume of his 1957"1000 Model Catalog" models was published in 2016 in collaborationwith the Bob Mizer Foundation, with full size photos and excellent history.Thelarge format book on Mizer's work "BOB'S WORLD" was published byTaschen in 2015.
