(BODYBUILDERS) studio arax Group of more than 50 photographs of buff French men, including artful portraits exposing bulging muscles, group portraits, the men with their trophies and on the winner's stand, competition stills, and some outdoor scenes. Silver prints, each approximately 9x6 1/2 inches (22.9x16.5 cm.), and the reverse, most with Bacquemane's extensive notations identifying the musclemen, location, date, and competition details, in ink, in French, the Studio Arax Paris hand stamp, and the Collection Lucien Bacquemane hand stamp, on verso. 1951-71
From the Collection of Lucien Bacquemane--singularly the greatest collector of male physique photography--who engaged the photography studio Arax to produce images of his favorite male specimens.
