Olympic Photos by Paul Richer - Part 9

Olympic Photos by Paul Richer, part 9

We continue our series of nude photographs by Paul Richer of athletes in the 1900 Paris Olympics.  Richer was on an official Olympic commission to study the athletes.  Richer was responsible for taking nude anthropomorphic photos of the athletes, and since it was an official commission, almost all the athletes who were asked to participate did so.

We start with French tennis player André Prévost.  He won a bronze medal in men's doubles.

Here are Paul Richer's photos of André Prévost, front view ...

rear view ...

and side view.

Disclosure: I have removed yellowing from Richer's photos and brightened them.

This is French athlete Frantz Reichel.  He was on the French Olympic rugby team that won a gold medal.

Here are Richer's photos of Reichel, front view ...

rear view ...

and side view.

This is German cyclist Thaddäus Robl.

Here are Richer's photos of Robl, front view ...

rear view ...

and side view.

This is French cyclist Paul Ruinart.

Here are Richer's photos of Ruinart, front view ...

rear view ...

and side view.

Next time: more Paul Richer Olympic athlete photos.

Performers - Part 77

David Yow

David Yow, American musician and actor, was born in 1960.  In 1982 he formed the noise rock band Scratch Acid, above.  Yow was noted for appearing nude.  Unfortunately, the photo has been censored with a fig leaf.

This undated photo appears to be from the same time period.  As far as I can tell, that's Yow's penis that he's holding in some kind of bun.

In 1987, Scratch Acid broke up, and Yow formed the band The Jesus Lizard.  Above is the album cover featuring Yow for an unofficial release of Live at Bogart's, 1992.

Yow at a Jesus Lizard concert.  In 1995, Yow was arrested in Cincinnati for public indecency for exposing himself onstage.  He was fined $327 and banned from Hamilton County, Ohio for a year.

However, other venues were more tolerant.  This video clip shows Yow at the Dour Festival in Belgium in 1996 as The Jesus Lizard plays Just One Fix.

The Jesus Lizard broke up in 1999, but the band has sporadically reunited for concerts.  Above, a visibly older David Yow when The Jesus Lizard played at Metro in Chicago in 2017.

Another photo of Yow from that same 2017 concert.  His rear view doesn't seem to have aged.

Photographers - Part 77

George Dureau, part 1

George Dureau (1930-2014) was a New Orleans artist and photographer, known for his charcoal drawings and his photographs of black men, dwarfs, and amputees, many of them nude.  Today we'll look at some of his photos.  Above, a self-portrait in his studio, 1977.

Alvin Soco, 1983.

Battiste with Bow #1, 1989.

Battiste with Bow #2, 1989.

Glen Thompson.

Most of his models were black, but a few were white.  This is Troy Brown, 1979.

And here are Glen Thompson and Troy Brown, 1982.

John Hinton, 1983.

We end today with another white man, David Kopay.  Kopay was an NFL football player.  He was America's first professional athlete to come out as gay, which he did in 1975.

Next time we'll see more of George Dureau's nude photos, including some of his photos of dwarfs and amputees.

Calendars - Part 77

 Barefoot Man 2024

Starting in 2010, the Warwick Rowing team of Warwick University in England began producing a nude calendar not only as a fundraiser but as a gay/straight alliance to challenge homophobia.  For ten years they produced these Warwick Rowers calendars.  We've seen some of them in a previous post.

In 2020, they changed the calendar name to Worldwide Roar (still beginning with WR, like Warwick Rowers), so they could feature Warwick athletes of other sports, not just rowers.  We saw a Worldwide Roar calendar last time.

Then in 2024 they changed the calendar name again to Barefoot Man.  Here are some photos from that calendar.  Above, the cover features Tommy, Thomas and D'Paul.

January features Thomas.

February gives us a rear view, probably of two of the bikers in the next photo.

March features bikers Fabian, Patrick and Diego.

April features Thomas again.

June shows D'Paul and Thomas hugging.

Here's a full calendar page for July, featuring D'Paul again.

August features Tommy, who was on the cover.

We end in December with a rear view of D'Paul.

Protests - Part 77

Naked Handstander, part 2

We continue our mini-series on the Naked Handstander, Jonathan Scholes from Australia.  He has been doing naked handstands all over the world as a form of protest.  Here he is in Hong Kong.

What is he protesting?  Planned obsolescence – products that are deliberately designed to have a short lifespan so consumers have to buy or upgrade them over and over again.  He hopes that his naked handstands will help draw attention to this issue.

Above, he does a naked handstand next to the Liberty Bridge in Budapest, Hungary.

On frozen lake Tjornin, Reykjavik, Iceland on New Years Day.  That must have been cold!

On the Westfjords peninsula in Iceland in 2012.

On the black sand beach in Vik, on another visit to Iceland in 2016.

And here's another photo on the beach in Vik, Iceland.

We end today with a naked handstand in front of the Coliseum in Rome, Italy.

Next time: more naked handstands around the world.

Ivy League Posture Photos - Part 56

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