This is a rare vintage UNREAD and out of print copy of Bob's World: The Life and Boys of AMG's Bob Mizer, by Dian Hanson (Editor) and Bob Mizer (Photographer) and published and distributed by TASCHEN in 2009 featuring the nude male photography from photographer BOB MIZER. This 288 page HARDCOVER book and DUST JACKET, which is also wrapped in clear mylar measures 9.86 x 1.35 x 12.88 inches. See photos for condition.

The boys and backdrops of Bob's Kingdom: Bob Mizer's fabulous late-period full-color homoerotica 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. His diaries, kept from the age of eight, make it clear that he was openly homosexual from his late teens, but until the age of 42 he lived and worked in his mother’s L.A. rooming house, where his strict ethical code prevented him from fully expressing his fantasies. For 24 years he worked in black and white and never showed a completely naked man, but following his mother’s death 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. Text in English, French, and German

BOB MIZER'S WONDERFUL WORLD
Bob Mizer famously 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. In the 1970s and '80s Bob Mizer's huge compound in Los Angeles became home to dozens of his young models, who lived nude around his pool. His magazine and lifestyle influenced figures in art and society from David Hockney 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 this full-color, uninhibited second half of Bob Mizer's long career. The vivid photos are accompanied by an oral history, and a one-hour DVD of Mizer films, spanning 1958 to 1980, has been specially edited for this edition.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dian Hanson: TASCHEN's Sexy Book editor spent 25 years making men's magazines, including Puritan, OUI, Outlaw Biker, Juggs, and Leg Show before joining the company in 2001. Her many books for TASCHEN include The Big Penis Book and Tom of Finland XXL.

Due to recent delivery issues with the USPS I now ship all items via Priority Mail. $100 of insurance is included in this price. I’m selling my collection of vintage 1960-1980s gay pulp paperback novels, pictorial & hardcore magazines, physique photography, magazines & artwork.