Hippie Day

It's hippie day, and our first photo is a bearish protestor.

 

Shower

Someone rigged an outdoor shower somewhere in the country.

 

Waterfall

This guy is holding a stick in front of a waterfall.

 

Commune

Hippies founded dozens of communes, only a very few of which survive today.

This group painted a peace sign on their from porch.

 

Skinny Dippers

I think these two just went skinny dipping and are air drying themselves.

 

Italians

The Proletarian Youth Festival near Milan was the site of this 1975 photo. The proletarian 

youth got naked and ran around for days until the beer and weed ran out.

 

Tom

This is a model whose name was listed only as Tom.  He reminds me a little 

of the much lamented Rob Reiner, aka Meathead from All in the Family.

 

Style?

Yes, men did actually walk around like this back in the day.

 

Hose Bath

Here we see a fellow preparing to take a bath with a hose at a commune.

 

Woodstock Staff

Our closing photo is said to be some of the "security" staff at Woodstock trying 

to remove a man from some scaffolding for his own safety.

 

Name That Photographer

It's another Name That Photographer day, and it's a two part set, with part one being some well known men from physique modeling.  We begin with Ed Fury doing archery at the beach.

 

Kip Behar

I found out where this one of Kip Behar is from, but a photographer was not named.

Let's see if any of you can take that clue and go somewhere.

 

Art Ullrich

Every other color photo I've seen of Art Ullrich is by Denny Denfield,

but nobody seems to have labeled this one as such.

 

Bill Grant

Several other bloggers have come up empty for a photographer's 

name for this posing strap shot of Bill Grant.  So have I.

 

Helmut Riedmeyer

Closing part one with Helmut Ridemeyer, a model who worked for about half a dozen photographers during his busy career.  Whoever took this used a basic, but very effective, pose.

 

Name That Photographer, Part 2 - Lesser Knowns

For part two, we have some lesser known models, beginning with Tom Crabbe.  The only attributed photo I have of him is supposed to be by Dick Falcon, but this doe not look like a Falcon photo.  The wheel looks like one that Pat Milo used, but Russ Warner, Bruce, and others also used wheels.

 

Avent Smith

Avent Smith looks great in his undies, and he was known to have posed for both Russ Warner and Lyle Frisby.  This doe not, however, look like either of those artist's work.  Anyone know?

 

Carter Garle

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Don Scott

The double columns should be a clue, but I can't place 

a photographer's name on this picture of Don Scott.

 

Spencer Churchill

Our final model is Spencer Churchill, and more than one well curated website

has no photographer attribution for this particular photograph.

 

Large Groups Day

It's been too long since I did a series featuring larger groups of men, so let's 

get started with the most crowded item in my Wyngate & Bevins collection.

 

Germans

Take a close look and enlarge this one if you can.  You'll see some 

interesting details among these late 19th Century beach goers.

 

Copenhagen

This interesting photo is an all male beauty contest held in Copenhagen in 1909.

 

1910

I initially thought these beefy fellows were some of Prof. Desbonnet's students, 

but they turned out to be the Cercle Athletique de Montmartre weightlifting 

troupe as photographed by Maurice-Louis Branger in 1910.

 

Mulltiple Bums

There's always that one guy.  This unknown group of men are showing off their shapely bottoms,

but the guy second from far right has turned to show us his face and a hint of something else.

 

Yale Varsity, 1911

We get bulges galore from the Yale Varsity Rowing Team of 1911.

 

Pageant

The Mr. Nude USA pageant was held at the Treehouse Fun Ranch near San Bernadino 

in 1980.  They got a three page foldout in Playgirl, and the winner is below.

 

Vancouver, 1913

Here we see the Vancouver, British Columbia YMCA wrestling club in 1913.

I shudder to think how many of these beautiful men were lost in the Great War.

 

New Guinea, 1919

A Royal Geographic Society photographer took this photo in Papua New Guinea in 1919.  

The story attached to it was unfairly used to brand these men and others as "cannibals" 

when human flesh consumption was limited to funerary rituals that weren't even always 

practiced.  It was decades before attempts were made to correct the exaggerations.

 

AMG

This is supposed to be a still from one of Bob Mizer's more elaborate posing strap films.

 

Locker Room

This is a scene from The Strawberry Statement, a 1970 film loosely 

based on the 1968 Columbia University student demonstrations.

 

Military

Our last large group is said to have been an interwar 

Baltic State military formation out for a swim.