Bob's Naked Guys
Nice guys naked. Some retro, some newer. I own none of the pictures.
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Keeping fit at the YMCA.
John Hamill - likely by Barrington - ID by jsstrand.
Joe La Manna and Jay Dickens surfing the long boards.
It's always nicer to have two guys naked together. On the left in the first photo is Jimmy Smith (aka Bert Callinder) with J.D. Gregg. (Thanks again for the ID, Brian!)
Close pals. Bottom photo: Ted (Teodor) Starkowski and Chuck Howard by George Platt Lynes.
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Beach pair.
Not sure what's going on here.
Celebration.
Some kind of charity photo?
New pals at AMG.
Finnish Military Archive
Monday, December 19, 2022
More photos of John Converse, from the files of Philip Anderson. Thanks Phil!
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Some photos of Duke Reed, sent along by Brian E. Some others of him alone and with a pal are already on this blog somewhere.
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Thanks to Phil Anderson for a collection of pictures of John Converse, following a brief identity mix-up over the model's name. I know the top pictures are in the Champion flower shower and the ones at the bottom are from a few years later of Fire Island.
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Lot 162: - Civil War, Tintype Nude Portrait of Soldier Fleischer's Auction House Columbus, Ohio, OH, US August 05, 2023 Quarter plate tintype. Half leatherette case. Unprecedented and significant quarter plate-sized original tintype photograph of a nude Union Civil War soldier. The muscular subject stands in the dirt with his arms folded across his chest, naked from head to toe. A crudely painted camp scene backdrop hangs behind him, strongly indicating that a photographer in the field made this image c. 1863. The rarity of such subject matter cannot be overstated. Nudity in Civil War photography is virtually unheard of outside of a very occasional academic example produced in hospitals for medical study during the later stages of the War. Nudity in those images is typically incidental, as the photographs are usually focused on a wound, not the soldier. This particular subject does not appear to be hurt, making the purpose of this full-length nude tintype photograph entirely speculative. We are aware of no other examples. Given the sensibilities of the era this plate raises provocative questions. Was he nursing some unseen injury? Was he simply showing off?
