Oct 02, 2001 - Sale 1907

Sale 1907 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 3,220
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(BODYBUILDING) denfield, denny
Binder containing 50 photographs of nude and strategically clothed California musclemen by Bay Area photographer Denny Denfield. Silver prints, 10x8 and slightly smaller (32) and 6 1/2x4 1/2 inches and the reverse (18), tipped to the original mounts, many with Denny's hand stamp on verso. 1940s-50s
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These photographs were formerly in the collection of Denny Denfield. During the represssive post-war era, it was dangerous to purchase photographs of beautiful nude men through the mail, so Denny's solution was to take his own. On warm summer weekends he hung out at local beaches or visited the deserts near L. A., equipment in hand, photographing well-toned and well-endowed naked men, including