Lisa Lyon was a bodybuilding pioneer, a onetime dancer and competitive sword-fighter who, at 26, became the first winner of the Women’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship. She stood only 5-foot-3 and ...

Trailblazing female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon is reportedly dead at the age of 70 after a battle with stomach cancer. According to TMZ, the Los Angeles native died Friday at her home in San Fernando ...

Former Playboy model and bodybuilding icon Lisa Lyon is in a hospice fighting pancreatic cancer. The 70-year-old posed for the iconic men’s magazine in 1980 a year after winning the first ...

She won the first Women’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship. But she saw herself as an artist and posed for Robert Mapplethorpe and other photographers. By Penelope Green In amassing work made by ...

The photographer died 28 years ago and one suspects he’s got us exactly where he wanted. An arch-manipulator of the camera, he produced sculptural images of purest light and diabolical­ shadows. A ...