Peter Hinwood

"Rocky" from THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

Bob's World: The Life and Boys of AMG's Bob Mizer

Coming soon from Taschen Books.

Bob Mizer spent 48 years making photos and films for his Athletic Model Guild, and 41 years publishing Physique Pictorial, America's first, and most explicitly gay physique magazine. For 24 years he worked in black and white and never showed a completely naked man, but in 1964 Mizer built a kingdom dedicated to the pleasures of male flesh, and photographed fully nude men in explicit poses and psychedelically saturated colors.

In the 1970s and '80s Bob Mizer's compound, centered around the old rooming house, became home to dozens of his young models, who lived outdoors on couches and porch gliders among the chickens, geese, goats and monkeys, Roman statuary, cast off Christmas trees and other sundry props that featured in his increasingly quirky films and photography.
Sometimes called the Hugh Hefner of gay publishing for his pioneering magazine (republished in entirety by TASCHEN in 1997), Mizer influenced figures in art and society from David Hockney–who first came to America partly to meet Bob Mizer–to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who modeled for Mizer in 1975.
Bob's World: The Life and Boys of AMG's Bob Mizer is the first book to celebrate the full-color, deliriously uninhibited carnival of late-period Mizer. Over 250 photos are accompanied by an oral history by contributing artists David Hockney, Jack Pierson and John Sonsini, photographers David Hurles and Hal Roth, models Ben Sorensen and Andrew Sears, and Wayne Stanley, inheritor of the Mizer estate. The book includes a one-hour DVD of Mizer films spanning 1958–1980, specially edited for this edition.

Not Quite Nude

Celebrity Skin: John Davidson

TV , film and stage performer and host began is career at age 17 as an underwear model in the 1959 Sears catalogue. In the 1970s he followed trailblazing Burt Reynolds and dropped his trousers for this Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold. Pretty tame, but we can spot some pubes and perhaps a bit of Davidson scrotum?

The Spirit of '76

I've always had a fondness for the Bicentennial year. I've also had a fondness for guys without pants. 

Here's Playgirl Magazine Man of the Year Geoffrey Kane declaring his independence from trousers.

Nudesploitation Hall of Fame: Roddy McDowall

"Roddy" McDowall (1928-1998) was a popular English-born actor and photographer.
After appearing in several British films, McDowall's made his first well-known film appearance, at age 12 in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941). He then co-starred in LASSIE COME HOME (1943) opposite lifelong friend Elizabeth Taylor.McDowall continued his career successfully into adulthood, in character roles, notably in four of the PLANET OF THE APES movies (1968 – 1973) and in the subsequent 1974 TV series.We are not sure when Roddy posed 'in the altogether' for this photo (Click to enlarge). But we like it.