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The Athletic Model Guild, or AMG, was a physique photography studio founded by Bob Mizer in December 1945. During those post-war years, United States censorship laws allowed women, but not men, to appear in various states of undress in what were referred to as "art photographs".
- Los Angeles (1945)
- Homoerotic photography, Films and Publications
- Male nude photography
Abstract. Robert Henry Mizer (Bob) Mizer was born on March 27, 1922, in Hailey, Idaho. Known for his stellar skills in photography, he produced Physique Pictorial. In 1945, Mizer experienced a pivotal achievement in his career: the creation of the Athletic Model Guild, his studio space where the magic of his photography came to life.
Oct 27, 2013 · By Carl Swanson. 10 Photos. Photo: Courtesy of The Artist and The Bob Mizer Foundation. Over five decades, from the forties until his death in 1992, photographer Bob Mizer built his own libidinal ...
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Bob Mizer (1922-1992) was the driving force behind the Athletic Model Guild (AMG), a photography studio founded in Los Angeles in 1944, and the magazine Physique Pictorial, which published AMG pictures.
Despite societal expectations and pressure from law enforcement, Mizer would go on to build a veritable empire on his beefcake photographs and films, with the establishment of the influential studio, the Athletic Model Guild.
He established the influential studio, the Athletic Model Guild (AMG) in 1945, but by the time he published the first issue of Physique Pictorial he was operating the studio on his own at his home near downtown Los Angeles. He photographed thousands of men, building a collection that includes nearly two million different images and thousands of ...
