(BODYBUILDING) Album containing 100 photographs depicting Fr

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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 6,000

(BODYBUILDING)
Album containing 100 photographs depicting French musclemen in various competitions, comprising many images of James Marcel, including 28 nude studies. Silver prints, 6 3/4x9 inches (17.1x22.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with collector Lucien Bacquemane's copious handwritten notations on verso identifying the meet, the names of the athletes depicted in the photographs and their ratings, as well as Bacquemane's and Studio Arax's hand stamps. 4to, pink cloth, lightly soiled; contents crisp and clean. 1956-1959

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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.