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Lot 71
Tom of Finland (Touko Valio Laaksonen) (Finnish, 1920-1991)
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
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Collection of Thirty-Six (36) Tom of Finland Photographs Produced by Bob Mizer (Physique Pictorial), ca. 1960s.
Gelatin silver print.
Signed and notated in Mizer's hand on the verso; Pete Dobing, London-born physique photographer, also notated on the verso.
An expansive collection of thirty-six (36) Tom of Finland photographs, produced by Bob Mizer for distribution during the 1960s. Many of the photographs feature Mizer's own pencil notations on the verso, as well as an attribution to the famous physique photographer Pete Dobing. Dobing worked as a photographer at Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild throughout the 1960s-1970s, and was responsible for producing many of these photographs from the original graphite illustrations.
Various sizes, largest: 6 1/8 x 4 1/4 in. (15.5 x 11 cm.)
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Carl Morse (1935-2008), New York, NY. [1]
BigKugels Photographic, acquired from the Estate of Carl Morse, New York, NY 2009.
Property of a Private New York Collection.
[1] Morse was an esteemed LGBTQ+ historian, playwright, and poet, and also an art dealer active in New York City throughout the 1990s. He was responsible for a landmark exhibition of male nude photography in the New York Public Library in the 1990s, and produced many anthologies on gay and lesbian poetry from the UK in the 1980s-1990s.