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There was pleasure built into Mizer’s obsession, but also politics. Eventually, the young Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived to have his picture taken, and David Hockney was inspired by a Mizer photograph to paint “Young Boy About to Take a Shower.” Mizer once wrote to his mother, “My ambition is everything.” All told, he photographed more than ten thousand men, many of whom did stints living on Mizer’s compound, which grew to include most of the block around his mother’s house, with a papier-mâché mountain range and a pool that doubled as a tropical lagoon.
In 1957, the photographer published a booklet celebrating his first batch of subjects, the “Thousand Model Directory,” which served as inspiration for a new two-volume set of Mizer’s work from Taschen Books. But there’s just as much reason to consider Mizer the gay Hugh Hefner-a tireless collector of physical specimens. He has been called a forerunner of Robert Mapplethorpe, with his high-contrast, often black-and-white renderings of the body’s architecture.
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(The ones Mizer used were allegedly sewn by his mom.) After playing sailors and wrestlers and cowboys, the models were rewarded with sets of free snapshots, “membership cards” for the Guild, and, maybe most valuable, memories of the photo sessions, when they gazed not at Mizer but at their own images, reflected in the large mirror mounted above him.īy the time Mizer died, in 1992, at the age of seventy, he had produced more than a million negatives and some three thousand hours of film and video. They assembled in his studio, before backdrops of Greco-Roman splendor and the Midwestern prairie, stripping down, oiling up, and-this being long before the full-frontal seventies-putting on silken posing straps, a kind of antique G-string.
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His notion of gayness was informed by a “Code of Behavior” that he recorded in his high-school diary: “More masculine at all times.” Among his models were the gay and the straight, professional bodybuilders and professional beach bums, college students and returnees from the European front. Mizer came out to his mother in the thirties, when he was a teen-ager, refusing to ask a date to the prom and taking up nude sunbathing on the garage roof. Mizer flatters you with an invitation to his downtown studio-the parlor of the Victorian house he shares with his mother. Also on the scene: Bob Mizer, a wavy-haired, gentle-eyed, self-trained photographer of twenty-four, and the recent founder of the Athletic Model Guild, which sells photos of buff men to discerning customers. “The Pacific Coast Hercules,” and Joe Gold, the future founder of Gold’s Gym.
For now, there’s Muscle Beach, by the Santa Monica pier, where you lift rusty dumbbells with bikini-clad men like Malcolm Brenner, a.k.a. You just want to be admired, hopefully on the big screen. You’re a young guy, good-looking, roaming Los Angeles with one thing on the brain-no, not that thing.