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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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
Back Cover
Although my source didn't explicitly label it as such,
I think this is the back cover of Male Paradise.
Monday, August 11, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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