Paul Richer Day III

It's Paul Richer day again, and we start with a whimsical self portrait.

 

Rear view

This is a plate from one of Paul Richer's many books.

I think he is the same model who appears in several other images today.

 

Unknown Athlete 871

 Paul Richer took hundreds of photos of nude athletes in the early 20th Century, only about half of whom are labeled with names.  Today I will post several of those unknowns.  This is No. 871.

Drawing

Paul Richer's anatomical drawings are quite good, but for some reason he very rarely drew in the genitals.  He had no problem photographing them, however, as we will see.

 

Favorite model, pulling roller

This model appears over and over in the work of Paul Richer, especially in his 

collaborations with Albert Londe.  He will appear several more times today.

 

Unknown model

These two panels are cropped from a larger group of photos

of an unknown artists' model from late 19th C. Paris.

I'll say it first.  That bush is prodigious.

 

Page 303

This drawing was page 303 in one of Paul Richer's books.

 

Unknown Athlete 1013

 Number 1013 looks good from all angles.

Another view

I split this panel into two sections to show detail.

 

Anatomical

Mr. Richer went quite anatomical with this rendition.

 

Unknown Athlete 1025

 The exposure varies from image to image in this set of Unknown 1025.

That model, one more time

Here's another photo of my favorite Paul Richer model.

He looks quite good from any angle.

Deriaz Brothers

I spent half a day trying to find clearer versions of these photos 

which show three of the seven Deriaz Brother.  Anybody have any?

That's Adrien at right, by the way.

 

Familiar

If this drawing looks familiar, it's because you've seen photos of him today and in earlier series.

Paul Richer didn't miss an opportunity to draw this fine model.

 

Unknown Athlete 1338

Ending the Paul Richer series with an athlete known only as 1338.

He has a nice mustache and a happy trail.

 

Airborne Day, Part 1 - Assorted Nude Aviation

Today's theme is naked aviation, and it's a two part series.  We begin with an assorted group,

the first of which is this guy who may be about to pivot the plane.

 

Greeting

What a nice way to greet an incoming flight!

 

Naked 'Copter

My brother-in-law used to work in a helicopter factory in Fort Worth, 

so who knows?  He may have helped make this thing.

 

Jaybird

Those of you with an aversion to naked females

will want to scroll past this one.

 

Seaplane Stunt

I think these men are servicing a very large seaplane during World War II.

 

Color

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Gasoline

The last aviator in part one is pouring gasoline into a small aircraft.

 

Airborne Day, Part 2 - Golden Boys' Nude Skydiver

Golden Boys was one of the male nude magazines that multiplied in the late 1960s following the liberalization of U.S. obscenity laws.  Like Wyngate & Bevins, they Golden Boys sometimes used the nudist ploy to elude lingering legal issues.  In their fourth edition in late 1967, they featured a guy named Rick skydiving in the nude, and that is the subject of part two of today's set.

As you will see, I have doubts about the authenticity of some of the action shots.

 

Observer/Landing Roll

The guy with the binoculars is supposed to be an observer,

but he looks a whole lot like the model/skydiver.

 

Hung up?

Our hero looks like he's on his way down, but I think they hung him from a tree to look like it.

Somehow, I don't think he would have come down that close to a tree. 

But I could be wrong.  I've been wrong lots of times.

 

Packing

Golden Boys put this photo of the skydiver packing his chute in the middle of the photo essay,

and I can't tell if the process is part of the pre- or post-dive routine.

 

Landing?

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Finished

In the last image of the sequence, our skydiver seems to be getting out of his gear.

 

Dick Falcon Day

This is Dick Falcon, a 1930s bodybuilder who took up photography himself.  Today we will look at some of his work.  I don't know if this is a self portrait or if someone else took it.

 

Tom Crabbe

This derriere view is Tom Crabbe.

 

Of or by?

I haven't been able to figure out if this April 1936 magazine cover 

is a photo of or if it is by Dick Falcon.

 

Unknown 345

This unknown Dick Falcon model had catalog number 345.

 

Dale Curry

Dale Curry was a popular model whose career extended from the late 1940s into the early 1960s.  He appeared in a Dick Falcon photo for MANual magazine and also in an ad, but I can find no more photos of him attributed to Mr. Falcon.  The ad promised at least six.  Anybody have more?

 

Year, but no names

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Bill Stewart

Dick Falcon took at least half a dozen photos of Bill Stewart in the 1950s.

 

Darryl Powers

The beard and long hair may surprise some of you, but this is Champion model Darryl Powers, aka Lance Ponton, in a photo by Dick Falcon.  Mr. Falcon and Walter Kundzic of Champion Studio partnered for a while in the Sunset Beach Club nudist resort where Darryl worked and modeled.

 

Trio

The staging and hair styles in this one make me think that 

it was from early in Dick Falcon's career as a photographer.

 

Another unknown

Our last photo by Dick Falcon is a kneeling unknown model.