Military Men Again

It's military day, and we start with an industrial looking mobile shower unit.

 

French

I'm pretty sure that this is an intewar French induction center.

 

WWI

This is a U.S. Army Signal Corps photo from a World War I training facility.

 

Scots

The Suez Canal in 1916 was the location for a Scottish regiment to have a swim.

I've enlarged and sharpened the best part of the photo below.

 

Aussies

A group of Royal Australian Air Force personnel decided to their shiny bottoms 

along with their shiny Mirage III fighter jets.  The year was 1978.

 

Barracks Hijinks

I'd love to know how the guy second from left got his drawers ripped.

 

Large Group

I do not know the nationality of this handsome group of men,

but they look like they are having fun.

 

GIs in New Guinea

Here we have some GIs in New Guinea having a combined 

session of swimming, washing up, and doing laundry.

 

Algeria

This is a 1958 recruiting station in Bouira, Algeria during last years of French rule.

 

Shower flash

Our closing photo shows some men in a shower

with what looks like a flash bulb going off.

 

Paul Richer's Special Model

Today I am posting twelve photos by Paul Richer which show the same handsome model in a variety of positions.  My source says that the pictures were used as studies for a sculpture that was likely used as an anatomical instructional aid.  I've posted a couple of these before, but I think it is worth posting the entirety of my collection.  If anyone has any others, please let me know.  We start with an image which drew a lot of positive comments when previously posted.

 

Truncated I

This is the first of two photos where the model's head and legs were cropped out.

While that might indicate they were meant for an anatomical text,

the conventional wisdom is that all these photos were studies.

 

Wrist action

 

This is the first of two photos in today's series where 

the model's wrists are in a somewhat odd position.

Profile with foot forward

Paul Richer posed our model in profile with one foot forward with good effect.

 

Sword

I think he's taking a swipe with a sword.

 

Punching

He looks like he's punching the air with his fist in this one.

 

Crossed wrists

 

I really like this photo with the model's wrists crossed.

Maybe it's because he's looking into the camera.

 

Standing side view

The enlargement grid is visible on this side view.

 

Lean look

Our model looks leaner from this angle than he does in his other photos.

 

Truncated II

Here is another photo where the head and legs of the model are missing.

 

Fuzzy

The quality of this one is not great, but the plate number

is smack in the middle of today's model's sequence.

 

Side twist

Finishing the series with a side view that includes a twist.

 

Phil Knight

It's Phil Knight day on the blog, and this first image by AMG should please both the sailor 

and levis fanciers out there.  Bob Mizer doesn't seem to have taken any frontal nudes

 of Mr. Knight, but Bruce did, and you'll see several of those today.

 

That rock

I'm too busy to look at the moment, but I think that is the same desert rock 

that Bruce of Los Angeles used to photograph several other models.

 

NOT the shower

We are all quite accustomed to seing AMG models in the infamous shower,

but this time Bob Mizer used a bathtub.  Phis must have been special.

 

Baby picture pose

I have several friends and relatives close to my age who have been embarrassed their entire lives by baby pictures made in this pose.  The location here is a pool used by Bruce of LA.

 

With David Zurborg

David Zurborg has Phil Knight all tied up in this Bruce 

backyard shot, but he doesn't seem to mind at all.

 

Classic Bruce

The ball, the desert backdrom, and the statuesque pose all say "Classic Bruce."

 

Antique

Here we see Phil adjusting Bruce's 1950s TV which would 

probably be considered a valuable antique these days.

 

Karl Kruger?

This is another AMG bathtub photo, and the magazine in which it originally appeared named

 the model as Karl Kruger.  Turns out it was Phil Knight under a different name, and I have 

other AMG pictures that listed him as Phil.  I don't know if he worked under both names 

for AMG or someone came along later and retitled the photo files .

 

Poolside

I don't have a source for this photo, but the pool 

matches the one in an earlier picture by Bruce.

 

Classic Flex

Ending the set with a classic flex.