Roy Blakey Day

Today is Roy Blakey day, and we start with a beautifully lighted photo of Richard Christopher.

 

'Fro

The Afro hairstyle was still going strong when Roy Blakey shot this one in 1973.

 

Art

This one is art, pure and simple.

 

Cover

While not in the same league as Mr. Blakey's work for Honcho, Mandate, and 

After Dark, this cover for a New York gay magazine does have its charm.

 

Perspective

The perspective on this image is a bit odd, but I like it.

 

Fire Island Pines

If you click on the Roy Blakey label at right and scroll back a bit, you'll see a frontal nude 

of this model that I posted last year.  Only recently did I learn that it was part of a major 

piece in Honcho in 1980.  Today I am posting the rest of the group of photos.

 

Technique

I have no idea what technique Roy Blakey used to make this, but I like it.

 

Mystery

The ombre lighting gives this one an air of mystery.

 

Color

Roy Blakey's color work in Honcho is considered some of the best

for both the artist and the magazine.

 

Leonardo

Closing the set with a repeat post from seven years ago

that harkens to Leonardo DaVinci.

 

Professor Edmond Desbonnet Day

We haven't had a series of Professor Edmond Desbonnet's work for a while now, so why not today?

We begin with the good professor fully clothed above and in a fig leaf below.  Sadly, he never 

seems to have posed frontally nude despite having taken dozens and dozens of such images.

 

Jaw Dropper

I have to confess that even after a decade and a half of posting photos of nude men,

my jaw dropped the first time I took a close look at this one.  OMG!

 

Familiar

The model here looks familiar, but neither I nor Google seems to have a name for him.

 

Trio

I think the fellow at the center of this trio is a young Henri Brancaccio.

 

X

Mr. Scumbeast would have called this one "X marks the spot."

 

Staff

Like just about every art school in Paris, Prof. Desbonnet used the staff motif in his photos.

Rarity

Here we see a relatively rare outdoor photo reliably attributed to Prof. Desbonnet.

 

Ernest Cadine

I've posted photos of French champion weightlifter Ernest Cadine about half a dozen times,

so I was very pleased to recently find this "new" one a few months ago.  If it looks familiar, 

the same setting was used in a photo I posted early in 2021.  That one shows 

Mr. Cadine holding a huge barbell with a trophy on the side

 

Fig Leaf

Although I could do without the oversized fig leaf, the man's body leaves nothing to be scoffed at.

Of course, I have to wonder if they really needed such a big leaf to cover the goods.

 

Soldier?

Ending the set with a photo that may be one of Prof. Desbonnet's studies of soldiers.

The stance fits with that, but the main attraction is that package.

 

Earle Forbes Day

It's Earle Forbes day, and we start with the first of quite a few unknown models.

 

Lou DiAngelo

Lou DiAngelo looks like he could have made the cover of a bodybuilding magazine.

 

Wishing

I keep wishing I had more photos of this handsome model.

 

Unknown

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Sword

The model here is holding a sword, but his body position is very much like some 

of the statues of the God of the Nile in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.

 

Terry Robinson

We get a peekaboo in this photo of Terry Robinson.

 

Wally Lasky

Our second model in the set in trunks if Wally Lasky.

 

Barton Mumaw

The only derriere shot in today's set is of Barton Mumaw, a dancer of great skill 

who worked with Ted Shawn for years.  It was while associated with Mr. Shawn 

that Earle Forbes' photographic career really got under way.

 

Athlete

Closing out the Earle Forbes series with a model

whom my source only described as "athlete."

 

Playing ball

This duo playing ball was photographed in a bucolic setting.