George Platt Lynes

It's George Platt Lynes day, and we start with the first of two appearance of Charles "Tex" Smutney.  This time he appears with Louis Forns in 1940.

 

Buddy McCarthy

We get a handstand from Buddy McCarthy in this photo.

 

Contact Sheet

I cropped this unknown model from a Lynes contact sheet.

 

Jimmie Daniels

Dancer Jimmie Daniels seems ebullient in this well composed photo.

 

2nd Wave Contribution

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Larry K. Contribution

Larry K. at The Unashamed Male sent me this photo of John Butler,

a model who also posed for the PaJaMa Collective.

Thanks, Larry!

 

Ralph McWilliams

Light and shadow combine well in this shot of Ralph McWilliams.

 

Bob O'Neil

This is Bob O'Neil as photographed on Fire Island in 1950.

 

Tex II

Tex Smutney has his natural brunette hair in his second appearance today.

This time his friend is Buddy Stanley, or so my source says.

 

Dynamics

The final photo in today's G.P. Lynes series has an enigmatic arrangement of men 

that makes me wonder about the interpersonal dynamics among them.

 

Newish Colt Images

I'm posting some of the more recent additions to my Colt 

collection today, starting with Shawn Wilson.

 

Unknown I

I like the pose, the unknown model, and the setting in this one.

 

Ken Conroy

I've seen this model generally referred to as Ken Conroy,

although one source says he also went by Ken Marcus.

 

Unknown II

The second of three unknown (to me) models in today's set posed with a statue.

 

Nino and Gary

When I first spotted this picture, I thought it was a Bob Mizer/AMG poolside image.

Turned out to be Jim French going a bit off type.

 

Gavin Blake

An online auction site says that Jim French published 

this photo of Gavin Blake under the Rip Colt marque.

 

John Corvello

This is John Corvello.

 

Unknown III

 I'm hoping one of you knows this model's name because I'd really like to see more of him.

Angelo Korda

This is Angelo Korda in an outdoor setting.

Nice hair pattern.

 

Too real

For a moment I thought our final Colt images was one of those ultrarealistic art pieces.

It isn't.  It's Andy Miller as photographed by Jim French.

 

Random Nudists

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Happy trail

Is that a happy trail all the way from his collar bone on down?

Either way, I may need to open a happy trails category tag.

 

Flower in hand

I'm sure it's not what most of you are looking at,

but does his left hand look photoshopped?

 

Picket fence

Gossiping at a picket fence?

 

Punch

Is this guy about to punch somebody, or is he holding something we can't see?

 

Ordinary average guys

Ordinary average guys.

 

Spider

The spider tattoo wasn't quite enough to get this guy in to a tattoo series.

 

Australian

We get a sly grin from this man from an Australian naturist magazine.

 

Bucket

I don't have enough nudist photos of guy with buckets to give 

them their own tag, so this fellow goes into the random set.

 

Two tag

Our last random nudist male has two of those tags used at the 60s resorts.  I've read 

that they were used to mark approved members and to ID contestants in pageants 

and athletic competitions.  This guy apparently was tagged for both.

Either that or he was wearing a pendant.