The June 1978 edition of Honcho magazine featured two photo spreads shot by Roy Dean. One of them was of some rather unimpressive leather men, but the other was Canadian football player Blain Lamoureaux. Extending over 11 pages, it was quite a project, so let's take a look.
Vintage Muscle Men
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Page with text
This page late in the spread has some philosophical mumblings. And speaking of philosophical stuff, when Mr. Lamoureaux's coach at the Calgary Stampeders heard he had posed nude for a gay magazine, he shrugged and said, "Guys used to go hunting and fishing in their spare time." A Calgary gay history blog has an entry that said the Blain got fired for posing, but the coach's obituary and the fact that he played several more seasons seem to refute that.
In the ruins
Roy Dean used the ruin of a cabin to add a rustic touch to several photos in the shoot.
For those of you who can't easily enlarge this, I'll put the left hand part below.
I think Blain Lamoureaux may be standing on the ruins of the outhouse.
Outtake?
Our last Roy Dean photo of Blain Lamoureaux is said by some to be an outtake from the Honcho photo session because it does not usually appear as part of the larger group. Not that's it's very important, but if anyone has the June, 1978 issues or simply knows, please comment.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Navy Day, Part 1 - Shirtless Sailors
It's Navy Day on the blog and we start Part One with some Australian
sailors loading tomatoes onto their ship during World War II.
Navy Day, Part 2 - Affectionate Sailors
The sailors get affectionate in Part Two. We start with a pboto
where the affection is subdued, but at least they're touching.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Tamotsu Yato Day
Tamotsu Yato was a brilliant Japanese photographer who managed to produce some very homoerotic work in a culture where showing penises is generally not allowed. (We will see two exceptions later in the set, so stay with me.) We start with an image where we get just a hint of package.
Nobou Takemoto I
Tamotsu Yato took promotional photos of Japanese bodybuilders early in his career, both in the studio and in competition settings. I'll post some of the latter in a future series, but today I will focus that part of the series on four photos he made of Nobou Takemoto, who was Mr. Japan 1970. We start with a great derriere shot that shows Mr. Takemoto's stocky build.
Festival
Mr. Yato didn't just do studio work and bodybuilder promos. He also photographed
Japanese cultural and religious festivals were nude and semi-nude men were numerous.
Nobou Takemoto II
Full frontal nudes are rare (and illegal) in modern Japanese photography, but Tamotsu Yato
took two of Nobou Takemoto. As far as I know, they were not published in Japan.
Yukio Mishima
Tamotsu Yato took several photos of the hypermasculine Yukio Mishima, a Japanes nationalist
who committed suicide when his attempt to revive Japanes militarism failed.
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