1969

It's time for another series based on a single year.  This time, it's 1969.

I don't know if this guy is preparing food or calling bingo.

 

Beach duo

These two guys seem to be playing a game of Bocce ball on a rocky beach.

 

What's his name . . .

Scott Masters took this 1969 photo of Brian Norton aka Don Landrum aka Don Kennedy.

I have a feeling that none of those might have been his real name.

 

Beach Bear

I really like this photo of a bear doing piggyback at the beach.

Or is he an otter?  Either way, he looks happy.

 

Woodstock

This photo is from Woodstock, but I don't have a photographer's name.

 

Peter

David Hockney did this drawing of Peter in 1969.

 

Jumper

This guy looks like he was running for his life.

 

Demetrius

I have seen this photo of Demetrius dated as 1969 and as 1971.

If he didn't work for Colt Studio, he should have.

 

That damned war

Although not as bad as the preceding year, 1969 saw some of the worst fighting in the Vietnam War.  Arriving at the University of Texas that year, I immediately joined the anti-war movement and was surprised to find many veterans on the picket lines and in the marches.  They knew better than anyone what a complete waste the whole thing was.  I hope the two men above made it home OK.

 

And finally, a wish granted

A few weeks ago, I posted a black and white version of this photo from the waist up in a Pat Rocco series.  Along with several commentators, I lamented that I didn't have a more complete version or  more photos.  Well, here is the more complete color version, but I am still looking for more.

 

Leftovers from Larry III

It's time for another series of odds and ends left over from posts featuring images sent to me by Larry K.  (Larry has a great blog, and there's a link in today's last post.)  We start with the first of at least two boxers in the set, Assane Diouf, a Senegalese who fought in France 1935-47.

 

Finn

Leave it to Larry to find an SA-Kuva photo that I had never seen before.  The note attached said:  "1941-06-20-Vilppula-Matti Niherjuuri."  I think his name was Matti Vilppula, but the last 

word in the note does not show up on Google.  Maybe it's in Russia now.  I have this 

bizarre fantasy that Matti is leading a Finnish Army Sunday service's hymn singing

 in the nude, but the cigarette in his hand makes me think otherwise.

 

Weigh-In

This is obviously a weigh-in of some sort, but it doesn't look 

like one of those official ones coverd by media.

 

1930

This young man was photographed with is barbells in 1930.

 

Sailors

These African-American sailors where photographed showering after work in 1945.  Wayne Miller took the photo on Guan where the men were used as laborers to unload suppy ships.

 

George Shuba

I'm pretty sure the black and white original 1957 photo of George Shuba is one of those great 

locker room shots from the LIFE Archive.  The card, of course, is fake, but I like it.

Model

This poorly cropped (not by Larry) photo is an unknown model who posed for a statue of Istvan Hegedus, a Hungarian athlete, sportsman, and minor national hero.  He was killed by a stray bullet during the uprising of 1956, but not before he posed as a model himself in 1949 for the 20 florint 

banknote shown below.  The note remained in circulation until 1989 when the 

new anti-communist government decided that it was time for a change.

And no, I couldn't find a nude photo of Mr. Hegedus.

 

Roy Richter

I was very pleased to find this George Platt Lynes photo of Roy Richter in an email from Larry K.  It was made in Los Angeles in 1947 during a brief period when Mr. Lynes went West to make money.

 

Luc van Dam

This dreamy number from 1949 is boxer Luc van Dam showering after a training session.

 

Beach Goer

Our last donation from Larry K was on a French website, and the backdrop is a type of wind shelter one sees quite often in the UK.  The origin of the photo and the man's deep all over tan make me think "South of France."  Thanks again to Larry for today's photos!

Visit him at:  https://unashamedmale.blogspot.com/

 

Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 310

 A close look at Eadweard Muybridge's Plate 310

I'm doing something a bit different today, and focusing on a single plate, number 310, from Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking 1884 motion studies.  Number 310 features a young man putting the shot from three angles. I will be showing every image in order by rows so that those of you with technical limitations on enlargement can see some detail.  At the end, I will post a high resolution version that enlarges fairly well.  I suggest blowing it up and scrolling horizontally to get the best impression of motion.  If any of you photoshop geniuses want to make GIFs, I would be happy to have them and post them later.  Below, a portrait photo of Mr. M.

Front View, Segment 1

 In the first segment of the front view, we get some nice muscle shots in panels two and three.

Front View, Segment 2

 In segment two we get the wind-up, such as it is.  More about that later.

Front View, Segment 3

 The athlete lets the put fly in segment three.

Front View, Segment 4

 Segment four is the follow-through, and we also get a side derriere view.

Rear View, Segment 1

 The second row of Plate 310 was taken from a camera angle that eventually produces a rear view, 

so thit's what I'm calling it.  It start with the pickup, just like the other two.

Rear View, Segment 2

 The muscles in panel one are nice, but most of you will like the crotch action in panel three.

Rear Angle, Segment 3

Panel three of this segment has some fine musculature on view.

Rear Angle, Segment 4

 Is that the shot flying away at upper right in the first panel?

Oblique Angle, Segment 1

 The bottom row of Plate 310 shows our athlete from a somewhat oblique angle.

The picture quality from this camera is a rather spotty.

Oblique Angle, Segment 2

It was tempting to brighten up this segment, but I decided not to.

 

Oblique Angle, Segment 3

 I don't know if the method here was standard for 1884 or not,

but we don't see the typical 20th Century full turn into the put.

Oblique Angle, Segment 4

 The last bit of follow-though from the oblique angle completes the full plate sequence.

The complete unedited plate follows.

And finally, the whole thing