Muybridge Plate No. 312

I'm letting my OCD run wild today.  While looking to clip a couple of tasty items from Eadweard Muybridge's Plate No. 312, I noticed that instead of the usual sequential presentation, the individual images were arranged in reverse order.  So instead of presenting the natural motion intended, it would have been backwards.  This plate shows a man lifting and then heaving ar rock from two different angles.  I have cropped them and posted them here today in the natural order.  If some photoshop genius out there wants to make a GIF of these and send it to me, you will be lavishly praised, thanked, and credited.

 

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He has it off the ground!

 

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We only see the stone in one of these matching frames, but they are of the same moment.

 

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The last pair of frames seems to show follow-through and a slight smirk from the model.

 

Wyngate & Bevins - MALE Paradise

Today we look at 1967's MALE Paradise, a Wyngate & Bevins "nudist" magazine.  While the men inside might have enjoyed being naked, they were in all likelihood models and not actual practicing nudists. I don't have the entire publication because I found these images on a resale website as a sampler of the content.  The cover man shows up later fully exposed.

 

Inside front cover

Here we see a jumble of images with samples representing a few of the various photo spreads 

inside the magazine.  This was a typical preview page usually seen on the inside front cover.

 

Page 3

I think this is a typical Wyngate and Bevins page three layout.

It's a rather nice photo, imho.

 

Cover Man I

This is the full monty version of the front cover.  It wasn't at all unusual for covers to have obstructed packages only to show the full thing somewhere inside the magazine.  Things hadn't quite loosened up enough in 1967 to allow nudity to be shown on the newstand racks.

 

Coverman II

Here we see the cover man in black and white.  He turns up later in a centerfold.

 

Biology Class, Part 1

We're supposed to believe that these three students from a college botany class were given an assignment to find a rare lichen.  And they just happened to all three be nudists.  They look

 more like gardeners to me, but fwiw, there are lichens that grow underground.

 

Biology Class, Page 2

Here we have page two of the lichen hunt.

 

Solo

This unknown model got a solo spread.  These are facing pages, and the one at right has a color overlay.  I did some poking around, and it turned out not to be a faded color image.

 

Centerfold?

This might have been a centerfold . . . or just a two page photo.

The weight being lifted is not very challenging, btw.

 

There may have been more than these photos of two models on a rocky slope.  

Or was it a beach?  The teaser layout had only this page and no text.

 

Back Cover

Although my source didn't explicitly label it as such,

I think this is the back cover of Male Paradise.

 

Western Photography Guild Day

Although I've posted quite a few stray shots, mostly color, by Western Photography Guild in the past few months, it's been a disgracefully long time since I did a full series.  Today we will look 

at some of Don Whitman's black and white work, and I can think of no better place 

to start than with the always impressive Marc Arno.

 

Steve Anthony

The frou-frou decor in this photo do not at all match the masculine visage of Steve Anthony.

If any of you hear heavy breathing, don't worry.  It's only Albert, and he'll be fine.

 

Mark Sutton

We get a very winning smile from Mark Sutton in this 1975 photo.

 

George Hughes

Don Whitman, the genius photographer behind Western Photography Guild was by all accounts a mild mannered and vanilla sort of guy.  He did not, however, flinch at getting into some bondage

themed work.  This shot of George Hughes is the first of two in today's series.

 

Eddie Williams

Eddie Williams is one of my favorite WPG models, and based on the sheer number 

of photos taken of him, he must also have been one of Don Whitman's.

 

Barry Craig

I hope they had a hidden pad under Barry Craig when they shot this photo on a rough rock.

I've seen his name spelled both Craig and Graig, btw.

 

Darryl French

Being tied up doesn't seem to upset Darryl French at all.

 

Paul Labriola

Paul Labriola posed on some stairs for this one.

 

Frank Zeuch

Don Whitman scrupulously adhered to the laws prior to liberalization, resulting in a number 

of posing strap photos in his portfolio.  This one of Frank Zeuch is a personal favorite.

 

Unknown

I hope that someone out there knows the name of our last WPG model.

Here's hoping there are more photos of him out there somewhere.