Vintage Muscle Men

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Colt Men via jstrand

Earlier this year I received an amazing digital collection from viewer jstrand, and I previously

posted some Wyngate and Bevins magazines from it. There is a lot more on that thumb

drive thatn just W&B, however, so today we will look at some material from Colt,

starting with a model known as Rex.

Thanks a million to jstrand!

Greg Kolb

My favorite from this set is Greg Kolb on a remote beach.

Cory Elliott

Cory Elliott seems to be enjoying his Walkman very much.

Wes Christianson

We get a serious looking (and hairy) Wes Christianson here.

Jean-Claude and Turk

These two are Jean-Claude, aka Ric Dreslin, and a model listed only as Turk.

Gavin Reed

Our only color photo of the set is an impressive one of Gavin Reed.

George Payne

While we might have wanted to see more of the model,

posing George Payne behind an ballustrade does have impact.

Jon Nicholson

1980 was the year for this Colt photo of Jon Nicholson.

Ernie Langeberg

A comfy sofa made a nice spot to photograph Ernie Langeberg.

Danny Collier

Ending the Colt series with Danny Collier and his impish grin.

Thanks again to jstand for sharing today's photos!

Monday, October 7, 2024

We're heading to the early 20th Century yet again, and we start with the furst of two athletes from Professor Desbonnet's photographic work. I had to do a Google Images search to learn that much as my file was labeled "Unbekannt" or German for unknown. Still don't know his name.

Henri Gance

Gold Medalist Henri Gance represented France in weghtlifting at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.

Kettle bell

Kettle bells have been around for a very long time.

Tension

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Stowitts

Nicholas Muray of New York took this photo of American ballet dancer and painter Hubert Stowitts.

1905

This one came with only a date, 1905, but the model looks very much

like one who worked for Arthur Schulz around that time.

Cadine

Here we see Ernest Cadine in a shot from the combined photographic

and athletic studio of Professor Desbonnet in Paris.

Seaside contortionist

This guy had to have a lot of confidence to do that on rocks in surf.

Muscle thinker

This might be a muscular take on Rodin's The Thinker.

Paranoid

Our last early 20th Century model reminds me of I guy I knew in college

who dropped out in his sophmore year due to a diagnose of acute paranoia.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Leftover Art

Today I'm posting ten art works that were leftover from more tightly themed sets.

We start with an unnamed piect by Pierro-Auguste Cot from 1865.

Cain

Julius Paulsen painted Cain in 1891.

I think he is being marked as a murderer here.

Godard

This academic drawing by Rene-Jules Godard is from about 1906.

Charon

Pierre Subleyras painted Charon Ferrying the Shades in 1738.

Talk about your rosy cheeks!

Spartacus

German artist Willi Geiger painted Spartacus in 1940, but because of his anti-Nazi politics it wasn't exhibited until after the war. Herr Geiger was fired from his job as an art professor shortly after the Nazis took power, but he laid low, survived the war, and made a comeback in 1946.

Visconti

Eliseu Visconti did this drawing in 1889, and it's my favorite of the day.

Below we see his self portrait made a few years later.

Disclosure: I removed heavy yellowing from the upper image.