Many people consider the Stonewall uprising to be the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. But before the raid that launched a thousand Pride parades — and many more rainbow-washing ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Mizer died at 70 in 1992, Laaksonen at 71 in 1991.) Sexual imagery does seem to get more explicit as social standards change over time, but otherwise time stopped circa 1960 in the Physique Pictorial ...

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 ...

Fantasy Camp: Photographs by Underground Legend Bob Mizer Come Up for Air“He was part of the process of creating this new masculine identity, which coincides with the invention of the teenager and ...

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 — ...