Bodybuilders - Part 43

Tony Pearson

Tony Pearson, born in 1957, was Mr. America 1978, above.  At age 21, he was the second-youngest to win the contest.

He posed for several nude photos, including this nice view with tropical foliage.

This shot is from 1980.

An undated full-frontal image.

This shot was taken by photographer Roy Dean.  Pearson's hair has grown out a bit.

Another shot of Pearson by Roy Dean.  I got the last two images from Vintage Muscle Men.  Thanks, Jerry!

Olympics - Part 25

Alberto Tomba

Alberto Tomba is an Italian skier born in 1966.  He skied for Italy in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, winning gold in the Men's Giant Slalom and the Men's Slalom.  Then he skied in the 1992 Winter Olympics in the French Savoi, winning gold in the Men's Giant Slalom and silver in the Men's Slalom.  In 1994 he skied in the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway (above), winning silver in the Men's Slalom.  In 1998 he was in the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, but he did not win any medals.

In 1995, a photographer released photos of Tomba naked in a sauna in 1988.  The photos quickly went viral. 

The photographer said that at an awards ceremony for the World Cup in Alta Badia, Italy, in December, 1995, Tomba took a crystal trophy cup that he had won and threw it at the photographer to punish him for releasing the photos.

The photographer said Tomba also threw a champagne bottle at him, and the trophy cup hit him but the bottle missed.

Tomba claimed that he was trying to throw the cup to his sister so it wouldn't be stolen, but he got pushed and the cup fell on the photographer.

Whether that's true or not, it looks like Tomba was happy to be photographed nude in 1988, and I'm glad we have these photos of this champion skier.

Performers - Part 91

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Photographers - Part 91

Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was an iconic photographer of male nudes.  At the start of his career in 1973, people received an invitation to Mapplethorpe's first show of his Polaroid photos in the back room of New York's LIGHT gallery.  When they opened the invitation, they saw the photo above with an adhesive dot.

And when they removed the dot, they saw this self-portrait of Mapplethorpe with his camera.

Here's another 1973 Mapplethorpe self-portrait.

If you want to know what the rest of Mapplethorpe looked like, here's a 1978 self-portrait with a whip up his butt.

Of course he didn't just take self-portraits.  This photo is called "John NYC", 1978.

Marcus Leatherdale, 1978.

Ron Sims, 1978.

Phillip, 1979.

Scott Daley, 1979.

Charles Bowman, 1980.

Dennis Speight, NYC, 1980.

Man in Polyester Suit, 1980.  The model is Milton Moore, Mapplethorpe's lover.  In 2015, this photo sold at auction for $478,000.

Bob Love, NYC, 1981.

We end with Thomas, 1987, but there are hundreds more Mapplethorpe nude male photos.

Robert Mapplethorpe died of AIDS in 1989 at age 42.

Calendars - Part 92

King's College Rugby Calendar 2015 

These images are from the King's College, London, 2015 rugby calendar.  The gallery of images had no indication of which image went with which month.

Like most British nude calendars, the proceeds went to charity, in this case, Broken Rainbow UK, an organization that helps victims of LGBT domestic violence.

Above, studying in a library.

The copper lion is Reggie, the college mascot.

A game of billiards.  Like most British nude calendars, frontal views are carefully blocked.

Relaxing at a bar.

This looks like a library hallway.

Locker room antics.

A class in human physiology?

The Round Reading Room, Maughan Library.

Going up?  Or perhaps a part of you is going up.

Relaxing in a formal setting.

Stairway to heaven.

School's out – kick up your heels.

Protests - Part 91

Mexico Nos Faltan

Above, two protesters in October, 2014, protesting the disappearance and murder of 43 students that happened on September 26, 2014 in Ayotzinapa, Mexico.

In Ayotzinapa, a group of over 100 male students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos school had marched to protest the local government's discriminatory hiring and funding practices.

A group of the students commandeered three buses to travel to Mexico City.  The police set up roadblocks and stopped the buses.  What happened next is unclear.  Apparently the police opened fire, killing 6 and wounding 25.  A few escaped.  The rest were hauled away by police, never to be seen again.

The Nos Faltan (we are missing) protest in October, above, demanded to know what happened to them.

In November, three members of a crime gang confessed that they had killed 43 students who had been handed over to them by the police, shooting them and burning their bodies.

In January 2015, photographer Edgar Olguin staged and photographed his own protest using naked models.  Most of the models were women, but there was one man.

His back says "Femicides, disappearances, narco-state, Welcome to Mexico".  I don't know why it says femicides, since all 43 murdered students were male.

What happened?  One theory is that the buses contained heroin, unknown to the students, and the Mexican Army intercepted the drugs on behalf of the traffickers, with the students being killed to eliminate witnesses.