Vintage 1950s 4x5 STEVE REEVES Mr. America RUSS WARNER Photo Unsheathing Sword
Item History & Price
All my auctions this week start at $11.00 as a way to say THANK YOU to my regular buyers and to celebrate the achievement of 11, 000 positive feedback this week -- a rarity among even longtime sellers of physique material. This will be my last round of auctions for 2020, so look for my next postings on Sunday, January 3rd. In the meantime, take note of both the quantity and quality of this week's offerings, and please accept my sincere THANKS for your support, your purchases, you...r questions, and your interest in this material for the past 20 or so years.Thisauction is for the VINTAGE 1950s 4x5-INCH BLACK AND WHITE SINGLEWEIGHT SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT OF LEGENDARY COMPETITIVE BODYBUILDER, ICONIC FILM HERCULES AND PHYSIQUE MODEL STEVE REEVES IN A POSE SHOT BY WEST COAST PHYSIQUE PHOTOGRAPHER RUSS WARNER.
This vintage photograh is in VERY GOOD condition, with some light creasing that is visible only when turned in raking light. Use my scans as your guide.
RUSS WARNER (1917-2004) was one of the most prolific (and withoutdoubt, the most widely published) of the West Coast physique photographersworking during the "Golden Age" of bodybuilding and physiquephotography. His early images of Steve Reeves helped make them both stars inthe late 1940s, and his work with Jack LaLanne, Clarence Ross, Roy Hilligenn, Norm Tousley, Vic Seipke, Dick DuBois, Alex Aronis, Bob McCune and other majorphysique stars kept his photo credit constantly in all the physique and musclemagazines of the time. When he was beset with legal troubles for selling nudesin the mid-1950s, he managed to continue to market his work from differentCalifornia cities with the help of friends and models, using the studio namesAdonis Studios (managed by his model, Jerry Riskin), Stanford St. George, WestCoast Models, E. Wallace Coombs and CPML (California Physique Models League).His four-decade-plus association with Joe Weider and his numerous magazineskept Warner's photo credit in front of three generations of bodybuilders andphysique fans.
Warner served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, during which time he served as aWarrant Officer aboard a repair ship in the Marshall Islands, and during hiswar travels he occasionally submitted photos of his weightlifting progress tomagazines like Strength and Health, where one of his submitted physiqueposes of himself was published in 1943. A pose submitted by his mother, Esther, was published by Strength and Health in 1945. He launched hisphotography business after he decided to settle on the West Coast after hisdischarge in 1945. Having used a 35mm Argus C-3 prior to and during the war, hebought a fancy new Speed Graphic 4x5-format camera from Sears and set up shop.Like his friend and one-time business partner, Bob Delmonteque, Warner alsooccasionally shot nude self-portraits and marketed them alongside images of hisother models. Of particular note (and not widely known) is that before helaunched his own studio, Warner was photographed by LON OF NEW YORK (Lon Hanagan), and the results were published in a 1944 issue of Physical Culturemagazine.
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This vintage photograh is in VERY GOOD condition, with some light creasing that is visible only when turned in raking light. Use my scans as your guide.
RUSS WARNER (1917-2004) was one of the most prolific (and withoutdoubt, the most widely published) of the West Coast physique photographersworking during the "Golden Age" of bodybuilding and physiquephotography. His early images of Steve Reeves helped make them both stars inthe late 1940s, and his work with Jack LaLanne, Clarence Ross, Roy Hilligenn, Norm Tousley, Vic Seipke, Dick DuBois, Alex Aronis, Bob McCune and other majorphysique stars kept his photo credit constantly in all the physique and musclemagazines of the time. When he was beset with legal troubles for selling nudesin the mid-1950s, he managed to continue to market his work from differentCalifornia cities with the help of friends and models, using the studio namesAdonis Studios (managed by his model, Jerry Riskin), Stanford St. George, WestCoast Models, E. Wallace Coombs and CPML (California Physique Models League).His four-decade-plus association with Joe Weider and his numerous magazineskept Warner's photo credit in front of three generations of bodybuilders andphysique fans.
Warner served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, during which time he served as aWarrant Officer aboard a repair ship in the Marshall Islands, and during hiswar travels he occasionally submitted photos of his weightlifting progress tomagazines like Strength and Health, where one of his submitted physiqueposes of himself was published in 1943. A pose submitted by his mother, Esther, was published by Strength and Health in 1945. He launched hisphotography business after he decided to settle on the West Coast after hisdischarge in 1945. Having used a 35mm Argus C-3 prior to and during the war, hebought a fancy new Speed Graphic 4x5-format camera from Sears and set up shop.Like his friend and one-time business partner, Bob Delmonteque, Warner alsooccasionally shot nude self-portraits and marketed them alongside images of hisother models. Of particular note (and not widely known) is that before helaunched his own studio, Warner was photographed by LON OF NEW YORK (Lon Hanagan), and the results were published in a 1944 issue of Physical Culturemagazine.
I'm starting this auction at a very reasonable opening bid amount, with FREE SHIPPING within the U.S.
Please check out my other auctions for similar items, and thanks forlooking!PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS: I accept PayPal, allegedly "the world's most loved way to get paid" (despite any factual substantiation for that ridiculous claim) because I am forced to do so by the formerly vertically integrated monopoly (now separate companies, so that they are merely partners-in-collusion), to the exclusion of other payment methods that are equally safe, convenient to me as a longtime seller, but which do not generate greater fee profitability for the mothership.Your item(s) will ship promptly upon receipt of your payment, despite my surly attitude toward the once-innovative company that still produces no product, warehouses no product, ships no product, but which eats me alive in fees.
WHY DO I OFFER FREE SHIPPING WITHIN THE U.S.? Because of eBay'sdecision to take a piece of sellers' shipping costs, effectively triple-dippingby earning fees on my listings, fees on the PayPal transactions that aremandated, and fees on a portion of shipping costs. My stellar feedback attests to the fact that my U.S. buyersappreciate free shipping.
REFUND POLICY: Please read my item descriptions carefully, and ask anyquestions you may have before placing your bid. I do not accept returnsor offer refunds on my items. Review my feedback and bid with confidence.
NEED MORE INFO? I’m happy to provide you with whateverinformation is necessary to help you make a decision about whether or not tobid on an item. Please send me an E-mail if you have questions.
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