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: [...]

Compiled from an autobiographical account of the photographer’s life appearing in Reed Massingill’s book, CHAMPION.
“Have you gentlemen picked up any of these models to prove your contention that these guys have erections?”
It’s a question that would change Walter Kundzicz’s life forever. Presented to police and post office representatives regarding a set of images that were [...]

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 [...]

While photographers like Bob Mizer and Bruce of LA were busy capturing the well-oiled bodies of off-duty military men and muscle beach bodybuilders, careful to couch their work in terms of health and fitness, a new wave of writers were saddling up to their type writers to bang out explicit and sensational tales of homosexual [...]

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 [...]

From BUTT Magazine
By Christopher Trout
Twenty years ago, David Hurles was rolling in cash. He had spent the better half of his life photographing and filming the surliest, dirtiest rough trade motherfuckers the West Coast had to offer and selling these photos and videos under the name Old Reliable Tape and Picture Company. [...]