Less is More Day, Part 1 - Semi-nude Physique Photos

Sometimes less is more, and today we have a double feature of semi-nude works.  

Part one is physique photography, and it will be followed by some art.  

We start with Fred Massaro by Lon of New York.

 

Dave Martin

I don't have a model's name for this one by Dave Martin.

 

Edwin Townsend

Here we have Caleb Sanders in a Flandrin inspired photo by Edwin Townsend.

 

Unknown

I have no photographer attribution for this impressive photo of Charles Smedley.

 

Pat Milo

I could have used this Pat Milo photo of Marvin Barnett for a geometry series.

 

Bruce of Los Angeles

Bill Grant is the model in this outdoor shot by Bruce of LA.

 

Spectrum

Hank Downing posed for Spectrum with great results.

 

Joe Weber

Paul Chandler is the model for our second Flandrin inspired 

photo of the set.  The photographer was Joe Weber.

 

Western Photography Guild

Although it doesn't look like Don Whitman's usual style, several sources say 

that this photo of Harold Adducci is by Western Photography Guild.

 

Lon of New York

Ending part one of Less is More Day with Sal Severino by Lon of New York.

 

Less is More Day, Part 2 - Semi-nude Art

Part two of Less is More Day will feature art, starting with a 

glum looking fellow painted by Pierre Dupuis in 1859l

 

Vely

This exceptional work from 1865 is by Anatole Vely.

 

I really like the light in this piece by Charles Lenoir from 1888.

 

Laurent

It was 1899 when Laurent painted this.

 

David

This work by Jacques-Louis David is said to be Patroclus.

 

Unknown

Unknown.

 

Edelfelt

 

Albert Edelfelt painted this in 1975.

Etty

This one is by the always impressive William Etty.

 

Tereschenko

Russian artist Valentin Stepanovich Tereschenko created this academic piece in the early 1960s.

 

Flandrin

Closing what has turned out to be a semi-nude marathon with Flandrin's work that inspired 

innumerable other artists and photographers Nude Youth from 1855.

 

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.

 

Frames 1

 

Frames 2

He has it off the ground!

 

Frames 3

 

Frames 4

 

Frames 5

 

Frames 6

 

Frames 7

 

Frames 8

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

 

Frames 9

 

Frames 10

 

Frames 11

 

Frames 12

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.