Happy New Year!

Wishing each and every one of you the very best in 2025!

 

New Year

Time for the annual New Years Eve edition of the blog, so away we go.

 

San Francisco

I think this one is from San Francisco in the 70s.

 

Happy Partiers

It's easy to tell that these guys are having a good time.

 

New Years Eve, the Movie - 1929

This is a scene from the 1929 movie New Years Eve

where the party turned into a murder mystery.

 

Strip poker?

This was in a group of party photos, but it looks like a game 

of strip poker where everybody lost . . . intentionally.

 

1900

It's 1900 here, and note the empty liquor bottles on the floor.

 

A pitcher too far

This is what happens when things go a bit too far.

 

1962

The Tonight Show, 1962.

 

Wild crowd

Quite the party going on here.

 

Philip

This is Philip, and he appeared in the January 1971 issue of Vector magazine.

 

Well Dressed Couple

Closing out the New Years Eve set with a very well dressed couple.

 

Ken Haak Day II, Part One - Private Collection

For my second series on the work of Ken Haak, I decided to do a two parter featuring work from two coffee table books he published in the mid-1980s.  We start with a shot from Private Collection.

 

Mitchell style

When I first saw this picture, I immediatel thought of Jack Mitchell's 

work with dancers, but this is without doubt by Ken Haak.

 

Looking at us

The model here is looking right at us, and we're looking right back at him.

The light/dark contrast of the two sides of the photo is amazing.

 

Beautiful backside

The muscles, pose, tan lines, and lighting all work together to produce an exceptional photo.

And of course, Mr. Haak started it all by choosing a gorgeous model.

 

Blond

The last photo from Private Collection shows a blond model with interesting lighting.

 

Ken Haak Day II, Part Two - Summer Souvenirs

Part two of my second Ken Haak series is from a coffee table book called Summer Souvenirs.

We start with an interesting shot that must have taken an effort to set up.

 

Poolside

This two page item from the book is an example of "less is more."

 

Open book

Here we have an open page from Summer Souvenirs.

Looks like ice cream and candy.

 

Tan lines

The tan lines here are sumptuous.

 

Jockstrap

Our last image from Summer Souvenirs is a guy in a jockstrap on a deck.