Dr Womack’s lawyer asked the Supreme Court: “If we so-called normal people, according to our law, are entitled to have our pin-ups . . . .why shouldn’t they be allowed to have their pin-ups?”
photographing physiques by Tony of Vulcan Studio
late 50s early 60s VULCAN STUDIO / CAPITAL STUDIO (Anthony Guyther 1921-2017)
1964 Vulcan Stuidos annual featuring the photographic works of "Tony of NYC" (nee, Anthony Guyther). 48 pages. Profusely illustrated full page duotone photos. Guyther was one of the founders of Fizeek magazine. A collection of art figure study nude photographs of men, ostensibly produced as an aid for the amateur photographer.
In 1955, armed with his Rolleiflex camera, Guyther turned his attention to the male figure and decided to name his studio Vulcan, after the god of fire. His work immediately became a staple of the Weider publications Adonis , Body Beautiful and The Young Physique . Mail orders for prints began pouring in. "Sometimes, there would be $200 or $300 a week," he told me in an interview, "and that was considerable money in those days." Guyther's work became widely regarded for its simplicity and elegance. It had the look of fashion photography, with a sexy sense of restraint that was less about muscle and more about youthful yearning.
Publisher H. Lynn Womack, whose stable of physique magazines included the stalwarts Trim, Fizeek, Manorama, MANual and Grecian Guild Pictorial , wrote of Vulcan in a 1962 letter to another physique photographer, "Other photographers dislike [Vulcan] because he is well educated. He is a gentleman. He is the best photographer in the business. He cares nothing for other photographers. He has made a fortune in physique photography. He still has the fortune he has made. He is, at 40, completely independent of everyone."Despite his independence, like other physique photographers of his era Guyther was harassed by postal police and local authorities. "Once when the police came by and looked around, they didn't find any nudes, but they did see the work I was doing," "One of the officers, who clearly was gay, came up to me as the others were walking out and whispered,
'You do beautiful work.'"
In the early sixties, what the gay-magazine marketplace promised its consumers was human connection; what it provided was objects for sexual pleasure. By the mid-1950s, there were gay booksellers, gay pen pal services, and many other physique magazines. In the late fifties, entrepreneurs attempted to consolidate parts of the market into “gay conglomerates.” The first attempt was by H. Lynn Womack, who left his philosophy professorship at Mary Washington College to publish the magazine TRIM Trim Studio and later founded a distribution company for gay magazines, Guild Press. Lloyd Spinar and Conrad Germain’s Directory Services, Inc. (DSI) was, as Johnson puts it, “The Sears Roebuck catalog of gay merchandise.
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The seeds of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation were planted in 1968 when Fritz Lohman and Charles Leslie held a gallery show of gay erotic art in their Soho loft. In 1990 they became a foundation dedicated to preserving art which many in the art world used to destroy. Ed Cervone "Three Sailor's". Or perhaps Patrick Angus' Hanky Panky - set in an adult peep show movie house. Darold Perkins has taken an Arrow Shirt ad and turned it into an ad instead. Next in the Drawings and Prints category we particularly love Paul Cadmus; the explicit Andy Warhol drawings -- he wasn't Tom of Finland.... but much more than Campbell's Tomato Soup
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