Vintage Bob Anthony’s Champ Homoerotic Gay Beefcake Magazine Vol 2 No. 3

Description: Vintage Bob Anthony’s Champ Homoerotic Gay Beefcake Magazine Vol 2 No. 3 Pretty great overall vintage condition, some damage on one of the interior spreads. Complete and intact. "BOB ANTHONY (Robert Anthony Dabrowski) was once a lab and office assistant for LON OF NEW YORK (Lon Hanagan), and when he left Lon's employment, he set up his own photography, mail order and publishing business. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he specialized not only in shooting his own photographs, but he also -- shrewdly -- purchased negatives and prints from other photographers who were then getting into fairly regular trouble with the police during the more repressive days of the "Golden Age" of bodybuilding and physique photography. Anthony was never a great photographer in his own right, but he was a dynamo as an entrepreneur. By the end of the 1950s, he was offering "New Faces of 1959" catalogs and "Form Fitting" catalogs promoting "16 different LEVI MODELS in RUGGED poses! "His magazine Champ for a while in the early 1960s attempted to compete with the more established magazines like Adonis and Tomorrow’s Man and Vim, and his photos of young bodybuilders JOHNNY KEMPER and JOE CALI paid the rent on his West Village apartment for quite awhile. Knowing that collectors actively were seeking full-frontal nudes, he not only shot them, but he also aggressively bought them (and copied them) from other photographers to sell through his own extensive mailing list. When the posing pouch finally fell for good in the late 1960s and the laws changed, Anthony was one of the most aggressive to enter the field of pornography, and he made quite a haul. Because he printed, sold and published photographs originally shot (earlier) by TOGOF, DON YOUNG, JACK SIDNEY, FRANK RYAN, VULCAN (Anthony Guyther) and others, his work muddied the waters for those of us who seek credible attribution for this material. Fortunately, enough material was printed early on to make it possible to trace some images back to their actual source. Dabrowski for a time owned a Greenwich Village bar called Scotland Yard, and he also earned the unique distinction of being one of New York City's most litigious tenants in a rent-controlled apartment dispute that went on for two decades and ultimately resulted in his bankruptcy filing."

Price: 75 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2024-12-18T02:16:34.000Z

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