After he died in 1992, the extensive archives of Bob Mizer, founder of the legendary pre-Stonewall beefcake factory Athletic Model Guild, were unceremoniously chucked in a dumpster—letters, photos, ...

BEEFCAKE. A documentary written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald. Running time: 93 mins. Unrated: Nudity and near-nudity, adult situations. At Film Forum. 2 Stars ‘Beefcake” is to documentary what the ...

The name Bob Mizer may not mean anything to you, but his story is the stuff of legend. In 1945, the 24-year-old spent his time lurking around California’s Muscle Beach, convincing its bulky, ...

Yesterday your favorite Radical took some time off and bicycled over Manhattan to see the Bob Mizer show at The gallery made the wise decision to show only a few conventional portraits. Much of the ...

We all have memories from a young age of walking down the underwear aisle in a department store, simultaneously scandalized and stimulated by images on the packaging of buff men stuffed into their ...

Considered the most prominent gay photographer of the male physique in the 20th century, Bob Mizer’s archives have been housed in the former Magazine shop in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district since ...

In the same way that porn magazines are often hidden under pillows or locked away on the top shelves of closets, the history of “beefcake” photography has been highly secretive. The photographers and ...

This film looks at the 1950's muscle men's magazines and the representative industry that were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the ...