Life magazine extensively covered sports and athletes throughout its publication history from 1883 to 1972. The magazine’s photographers were known for capturing powerful and iconic images of athletes in action, both on and off the field. These photographs not only documented the athletic achievements of the time but also contributed to shaping the public’s perception of sports figures and the sporting world. The sportsmen were often photographed naked in communal showers, and locker room situations. Although they were never published in the magazine, they were kept in the magazine’s archives, and have over recent years appeared all over the net, without anyone explaining where this art had come from. Men back then had a masculine quality they (we) don’t have today. You can almost smell the testosterone and sweat coming off of these pictures.
Wonderful photos! Hard to imagine feeling so relaxed about getting naked, being naked, standing naked (really close!) to other men with clothes on. These naked men are beautifully erotic but the gaze of the camera isn’t eroticising them. I love it!
What you describe as exceptionary is from the outside not the inside. Nothing extraordinary is going on except what goes on in a typical locker room devoid of sex. What you see is daily and rather mundane as men have dicks and asses and once you seen the first 25, the 26th looks the same. At the time of the pics, gays were where they belong and not interfere with daily life.
where they belong?
yes in the locker room
Terrific. When did we get all shy around other men. What is there to hide. Are we not all the same and nudity together just reinforces our troupe bonding sense of being brothers. Of social cohesion, tolerance and generosity toward our fellow men.