Earl Forbes Models
Earl Forbes shot a lot of models in the 30s and 40s whose full shoots only survive in scattered stills like Benny Piekarsky (above) or Jack Monagino (below) for whom only a single image survives.
Category: 1930s
Gay vintage physique photography from the 1930s
Tony Sansone by Earl Forbes
Anthony Sansone photographed nude by Earl Forbes in the late 1930s.
Dick Falcon, 30s bodybuilder
Dick Falcon was a fairly successfull bodybuilder in the mid to late 30s before he took up photography and founded the physique photography and later porn studio that continues to this day.
Earl Forbes
A salute to 1930s-40s physique photographer Earl Forbes and the many uncredited models he shot.
David Asnis
Late 30s-early 40s bodybuilder David Asnis was a regular model of Al Urban’s from 1938 to 1940. Asnis was famously unhung and was fond of Al Urban’s no posing strap style.
Kenneth Pendleton by Al Urban
Bodybuilder Kenneth Pendleton was frequently described as the “most muscular man of his age” He posed for Al Urban in 1936-37; his first black model.
The Movie Star and the Hustler
Novarro: The Movie star and the Hustler Paul Ferguson, what unusual circumstances brought these people together that ended in murder?…