From the time WWII ended in 1945 (coincidentally the same year Bob Mizer founded AMG) California’s coast played host to some of the sexiest, surliest veterans of foreign wars ever to have defended our fine country. Many of these boys in uniform returned to the US, but never ventured home, choosing instead to plant their [...]

Where it was once a reflection of a lively industry, filled with work from a slew of international contributors, Physique Pictorial had become a one-man show. Gone were the lascivious illustrations from the likes of George Quaintance and Tom of Finland, the playful photos of Bruce Bellas and Walter Kundizcs. In there place were [...]

This stud from St. Louis is possibly the most decorated model in Physique Pictorial history. In our extensive experience with Bob Mizer’s groundbreaking publication, never have we found a man with such a complicated collection of subjective character analysis symbols. The text accompanying his appearance in the April 1973 edition of PP reads as such: [...]

Porn, cocaine and disco – these mainstays of the 1970s had America horny, hyper and ready to dance. And while they may have collectively peaked nearly 40 years ago, their influence is still evident today. Take Lady Gaga for example, or, well, Lady Gaga. Point is, the 1970s were an influential age. Hell, even Bob [...]

The 1960s brought on the rise of the quaalude, the creation of the key party and the discovery of those precocious Brits, the Beatles. For those beefcake rags that survived the conservatively cold 1950s, it was a time of great change and even greater success. Having fought for decades to see the front end of [...]

Often imitated but never duplicated, Physique Pictorial is, if not the longest running gay magazine in history, than at least the most influential. Published from 1951 to 1990, the magazine survived through monumental changes in America’s social and political climates. At the time of its first printing in November 1951, depictions of male nudity were [...]

It seems the LAPD, that stronghold of racial profiling and police brutality, has been playing fast and loose with its night stick for decades now. Sure, we’ve all heard of Rodney King, but what of the victims that came before? Case in point, former AMG model, Leonard Chambers. This handsome weightlifter, measuring 5′8″ and 165 [...]

Since we’re on a bit of a fashion kick this week, we thought we’d draw attention to some rather fashionable drawers – underwear, that is. When AMG first started out, it was intended as a sort of agency for photographers and models of the male form. At the time, Physique Pictorial was little more than [...]

A little over a year ago, we received a request from the illustrious men’s magazine, BUTT, for a set of fully clothed models from the Bob Mizer archives. Spurred on by an interview with Vince Aletti, in which the photo collector/editor revealed his interest in the tamer works of photographers like Mr. Mizer, they were [...]

Bob Mizer was a genius, though quirky, photographer, but it’s his writing that proves what a truly bizarre man he was. The short political rants, the editor’s notes, even the basic editorial disclaimers that Mizer penned in the pages of Physique Pictorial, while necessarily cryptic, give some insight into the mastermind behind modern American male [...]