Olympic Photos by Paul Richer - Part 7

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Performers - Part 75

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Photographers - Part 75

César Saldivar

César Saldivar, above, is a Mexican photographer born in 1965.

He made a name for himself photographing Spanish and Mexican actors, such as Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, above.

But he has a thing for naked males.  His 2002 book (above) Luz Natural: El Desnudo y El Cine Espanol (Natural Light: The Nude and Spanish Cinema) contains naked photos of Spanish and Mexican actors.  Not Antonio Banderas, but plenty of other actors were willing to be photographed naked.

Above, a photo of Spanish actor Enrique Alcides in the book Luz Natural.

Another actor in the book.  Some of my readers identified him as Spanish actor Tristán Ulloa.

In 2004, Saldivar's interest in naked men became even clearer with his book Juegos de luces: Cien pollas en blanco y negro (Playing with Light: 100 Cocks in Black and White).

Some cock photos from that book.

Another cock shot from that book.

His 2006 book Refljos Masculinos (Masculine Reflections) ...

contains photos like the one above.

And Saldivar has produced many photos that are not in a book.  Above, Ibiza Mill.

We end with a 2017 color photo that has also been widely reproduced in black-and-white, called Guerrero de la montaña (Mountain Warrior).  Note the white stripe that runs right down the subject's penis, almost like camouflage.

Calendars - Part 75

SHU Rugby 2017

My very first post in this series on nude calendars was about Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) in England.  SHU puts out a nude rugby calendar every year.  Today we look at the 2017 calendar.  Like most British nude calendars, money from calendar sales goes to charity, in this case the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (NASS).

The calendar features SHU rugby team players.  It show rear views, like this locker room scene for the April page ...

and this shower scene for November ...

and this rear view of players on the field for March.  This was not taken during a real game; rather, action was filmed at night when the players could be nude on the field.

Frontal views are concealed in the calendar, either with strategically placed props, like the February page ...

or the players cover themselves, like this kitchen scene for June ...

or this locker room scene for May.

But in addition to the calendar, the SHU rugby team puts out a "Making of the Calendar" video that documents what goes on as players pose in the locker room and the shower and on the field for calendar photos.  In the video, there is no attempt to preserve modesty.

Above is a short excerpt from the video documenting the shooting of the May page above, as the players manage to cover themselves for the photo.

Our second scene from the "Making Of" video requires an explanation of rugby rules.  When the ball goes out of bounds, a player from the team that did not send the ball out of bounds throws the ball back onto the field.  Naturally he throws it to his teammates, who get to hoist a player up in the air to catch the ball so the other team can't intercept it.  This play is called a lineout.  This photo of a lineout shows another team, not SHU.

And here's a section from the "Making Of" video, showing the naked SHU players practicing a lineout.  This never made it into the calendar.  But you can tell at the end that they had some fun along the way.

Protests - Part 75

Bums for Bush

In September, 2007 the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference was held in Sydney, Australia.  Leaders of Pacific Rim countries attended, including U.S. President Bush.

On Sept. 7, a group of about 50 Aussies protested against Bush and the war in Iraq by mooning.  They called it "Bums for Bush."

Will Saunders, who organized the event, said mooning was a fun and Australian way to get the anti-Iraq war message across without being too grim.

Click on the image above for a larger view of the bums saying "no to bombs."

The event must have been well publicized, because it looks like there were more photographers capturing the mooning than there were mooners.

Another part of the line of mooners.  Again, note all the photographers.

A closer view of some protesters.

Not everyone protested against Bush.  We end with a lone Bush booster mooning to show his support.

Ivy League Posture Photos - Part 54

Ivy League Posture Photos

Yale started taking nude photos of incoming freshmen in 1919 as part of a program to detect and correct posture problems.  The Yale photos have erroneously been associated with William Sheldon, a psychologist at Harvard and author of Nazi-like eugenic theories who used Harvard nude posture photos to illustrate his theory of somatypes.  The Yale program predates Sheldon, and, as far as I can tell, the Yale photos were never connected to Sheldon's work.

Here are posture photos of nine more Yale students that I had the opportunity to acquire.  For privacy reasons, I redact the names of men who might still be alive.  One of these men may still be alive, so his name has been redacted.

This is Yale freshman Richard F. LaGanza in October, 1953.

In 1952, Yale installed an apparatus using mirrors to photograph the front, rear, side and top view.

This is Yale freshman William P. Langford on October 8, 1953.

Note the strange pins stuck to each student's back and chest.

This is Yale freshman Julian Craig LaVin on October 12, 1953.

The pins were stuck on at specific points for later posture analysis.

This is Yale freshman David B. Lawrence on October 7, 1953.

Supposedly, by examining the angles formed by connecting the points where the pins touched the body, certain posture problems could be detected.

This is Yale freshman P. L. on October 8, 1953.

If posture problems were detected, the student had to attend remedial posture sessions, and a second posture photo was taken.

This is Yale freshman David Chancellor Black on January 12, 1951.

Photos taken before 1952 show only a side view.

This is Yale freshman John Fletcher English on January 15, 1951.

The photography and analysis of the photos was conducted by the staff of Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

This is Yale freshman George Lewis Frear on January 15, 1951.

Nobody outside the gymnasium staff saw the photos, and the photos were not published for other students to see.

This is Yale freshman Hovey Thomas Freeman, Jr. on January 31, 1951.

The posture photo program was discontinued in the 1960s, and later, most of the photos were burned.  However, some of the photos escaped burning, including the photos that I have been showing in this series.

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Note: some of my followers consider these photos an invasion of privacy for the students.  To protect the privacy of the students, I redact the names of students who may still be alive.  I only publish the names of students who have died.  Legally, the right to privacy does not extend beyond death, i.e. it does not extend to spouses and relatives of the deceased person.

I consider these photos to be a historical record of the time.  Almost all of the Ivy League posture photos were burned when their existence became widely known.  In my opinion, that was akin to book-burning of books that someone claimed were obscene.  These photos are not obscene.  They should be celebrated, not hidden away.