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American Adonis: Tony Sansone, The First Male Physique Icon

Door John Massey

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#329290-AD14
Titel
American Adonis: Tony Sansone, The First Male Physique Icon
Auteur
Massey, John
Boektype
Gebonden
Uitgeverij
Universe Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
0789310724
ISBN13
9780789310729
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial boards, dust jacket, illustrated with sensual photographs of Italian-American model and bodybuilder Tony Sansone, 4to.
Samenvatting
Nowadays nearly everyone is a member of a gym, and perfecting the body beautiful is taken to the point of obsession. This phenomenon can be traced back to one man: Anthony Sansone (1905-1987), the first male physique icon and the most admired bodybuilder of his time. Like his contemporary Rudolph Valentino, Sansone was one of the first to make male beauty a desirable commodity.

Images of Sansone's body spurred the physical culture movement that would sweep the country. Through innumerable reproductions of his photographs, his fitness program publications, and the three gyms he founded, Sansone set and shaped the physical ideal that a whole generation of men would follow. A charismatic figure, Sansone moved within a number of worlds and interacted with some illustrious characters: art (G... (Lees verder)ertrude Whitney), bodybuilding (Charles Atlas), dance (Alexandre Gavrilov), Hollywood (Johnny Weissmuller), theater (David Belasco), and photography (Nickolas Muray). American Adonis uncovers the lost story of Sansone's life along with stunning reproductions of his sculpted, godlike body, many of which have not been seen in more than fifty years.
Pagina's
144
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 50,00

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