June 2013
Gregor Arax
Pierre Laurent
1948
Nice, France
A photograph that I have been scanning for Nick Henderson, the negative of which he bought at auction. A great negative, well exposed, with an unusual background for a physique photograph. American? English? French would you believe. And the only way I know that is my enlarging discarded newspaper at bottom left. It’s fascinates me the information that can be found in old photographs by enlarging details!
More information
Nick says the information on the auction was this:
“Original vintage photographic negative by the renowned French physique photographer Gregor Arax of Pierre Laurent taken in Nice 1948.”
Gregor Arax was France’s greatest physique photographer.
“Gregor Arax of Arax Studio… was a Greek national, who photographed male nudes in Paris from the 1930’s to 1960’s. He photographed many of the elite bodybuilders of his time, including Steve Reeves.” (text from Vintage Male Physique blog)
More fantastic photographs by Arax can be found on the Vintage Male Physique blog and the Homodesiribus blog.
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