Sunday, November 20, 2022

Today we have a question. A commentor is insistent that it is "an accepted fact in the field of physique photography that the man named Greg Bradford" shown here in the top three photos by Dave Martin is the same man known as Joe Napoli in the bottom three by various other photographers. I see the resemblance but I'm not convinced. What do you all say?




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16 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 20, 2022 at 11:18 AM

    The Male Models Vintage Beefcake blog which is extremely well curated has them featured as one and the same person.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 20, 2022 at 12:12 PM

    Joe has an underbite, completely straight eyebrows and a straight hairline whereas Greg has arched eyebrows and a bit of a widow's peak. Even if he'd shaved the middle of his brows the shape would still be the same. Jim.

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    1. Bob's Naked GuysNovember 21, 2022 at 9:39 AM

      I see that too.

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    2. AnonymousNovember 21, 2022 at 11:48 AM

      I agree with Anonymous. The eye brow shape is so markedly different, they are not the same person.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 20, 2022 at 2:05 PM

    Two seperate individuals. Joe has a definite "uni-brow" and shaved /less hairy body..
    There is a book about Bruce Bellas called Inside-Outside by Taschen with an index at the back taken from Mr. Bellas' own notes about some of the models he worked with. Joe Napoli is listed with the following info -
    Real name -Joseph G. Nappi, DOB 3-16-1942, HGT 5'2" WGT 139 -attended Columbus & Aquinas High School--all around athlete, Pasadena City College- where he excelled at gymnastics & diving (All-American), Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale- gymnastics. It also mentions he posed for Bruce starting in Dec.1964 and posed for 197 photographs.
    Rj/IE

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    1. jimboylan2November 22, 2022 at 3:30 PM

      Here's Joe, but he may have been married: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GHCM-4Y9

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    2. Bob's Naked GuysNovember 23, 2022 at 10:13 AM

      Thanks, Jim. The link brought me to a Mormon ancestry site and asked to me to create an account. I'll leave it to others to investigate further if they choose. Happy Holidays!

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    3. jimboylan2November 23, 2022 at 10:17 AM

      I was not able to find him or any relatives on WikiTree.com or findagrave.com, 2 other free sites. I didn't look on any pay sites. Very rarely I get lucky and find through those sites that someone that you feature is a distant relative.

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  4. Uncle VicNovember 20, 2022 at 10:42 PM

    No, they are not. I have spoken.

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  5. UtahJockNovember 21, 2022 at 11:02 AM

    In addition to the above comments, the chest freckles don't appear to match.

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  6. Bob's Naked GuysNovember 21, 2022 at 2:51 PM

    Since the original commenter raising the assertion that the two are the same has deleted his original comment and several others on the topic I've chosen to remove his name from the title question of this blog entry. Thanks to everyone with an opinion.

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  7. Paul WalrusNovember 26, 2022 at 7:44 PM

    The top penis look uncut , but retracted.
    The bottom. Is more radically circ'd.

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  8. AnonymousNovember 26, 2022 at 9:27 PM

    If Joe was born in 1942 and he is Greg he would be 13 years old in that first 1955 photo

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    1. Bob's Naked GuysDecember 6, 2022 at 2:52 PM

      Welp, it looks like that settles it. Thanks to everyone who weighed in!

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