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, ...

By 1951, Mizer was publishing Physique Pictorial, a quarterly fitness magazine that celebrated the beauty of the male form.

“Devotion,” an exhibition at New York University’s 80WSE, shows a surprising range in the work by Bob Mizer, known for his erotic photographs of men. “Devotion,” an exhibition at New York University’s ...

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, ...

Considered the most prominent gay photographer of the male physique in the 20th century, Bob Mizer’s archives have been housed in the former Magazine shop in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district since ...

We all have memories from a young age of walking down the underwear aisle in a department store, simultaneously scandalized and stimulated by images on the packaging of buff men stuffed into their ...

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 ...

This film looks at the 1950's muscle men's magazines and the representative industry that were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The gallery’s current show is an exhibition of Bob Mizer’s catalogue boards from 1945 to 1955 that depict the ...

Bob Mizer (1922-1992) was a photographer and filmmaker whose entrepreneurial talents led him to form a one-man empire in the field of homoerotica, beginning in the 1940s. Working out of his home in ...

In the same way that porn magazines are often hidden under pillows or locked away on the top shelves of closets, the history of “beefcake” photography has been highly secretive. The photographers and ...

Tactic in wiretap investigations target top-tier drug dealers, whistleblower and other reports allege; agent says DEA let ...