Physique magazines or beefcake magazines were magazines devoted to physique photography—that is, photographs of muscular "beefcake" men—typically young and attractive—in athletic poses, usually in rev
Early gay physique photographers advertised their work in "legitimate" bodybuilding publications such as Strength & Health before the inception of physique magazines designed for gay men.
A Tom of Finland drawing from a 1962 issue of Physique Pictorial. Sailors and leather-clad motorcyclists were common subjects of Tom of Finland's drawings.
Most physique magazines were printed in a small digest format, including Tomorrow's Man, shown here in the hands of founder Irv Johnson and comedian Jimmy Durante.
A 1953 issue of Tomorrow's Man, an early physique magazine ostensibly dedicated to health and bodybuilding
The Athletic Model Guild, or AMG, was a physique photography studio founded by Bob Mizer in December 1945. During those post-war years, United States censorship laws allowed women, but not men, to app
AMG model Jim Grant in 1949