FEMALE MUSCLE: Where Feminism Has Failed Women By Bill Dobbins http://www.billdobbins.com The progress that women, primarily in western culture, have made since the latter half of the 19th century is amazing. This is especially evident when you look at the status of women in parts of the world that have not gone through this evolutionary… Read More FEMALE MUSCLE: Where Feminism Has Failed Women
NATURE OF REVOLUTION I read an interesting quote in a book recently: “It would hardly be a revolution if everyone agreed with it at the beginning, would it?” This applies to most areas of our culture, from taste and social conventions, fashion, psychology and even medicine and scientific knowledge. This especially applies to my photos… Read More MY PHOTOS: REAL REVOLUTION TAKES TIME
My photo studio is located in Los Angeles. I have wonderful photo locations easily available including the beach, mountains and deserts not too many miles away. This is why I encourage those who want the best possible photos to come to book photo session and come here to L.A. I get asked a lot if… Read More SHOOTING PHOTOS IN LOS ANGELES
THE AGE OF FREE PORN We live in an age of free porn on the Internet and any magazines should keep this in mind when they are thinking about publishing photos of sexy women to attract readers. Penthouse went out of business at one point trying to chase the Internet in terms of erotic content.… Read More “GIRLIE” PHOTOS AND FAILING FITNESS MAGAZINES
A NEW ARCHETYPE When Pumping Iron author Charles Gaines first saw women bodybuilders in the late 1970s he declared they represented a “new archetype” – a kind of body never seen before in any culture anywhere in the world at any time in history. Women who develop their muscles for aesthetic purposes are “something new… Read More WHY AESTHETIC FEMALE MUSCLE IS IMPORTANT
THE SISTERHOOD OF MUSCLE: Women Who Represent “The Tip of The Spear” need to stick together By Bill Dobbins Bodybuilding, Physique, Figure, Fitness and Bikini at the 2014 Ms. Olympia There were no cells phones. The Internet was just for academia and the government. Fax machines were the exciting new innovation. Arnold Schwarzenegger was still… Read More THE SISTERHOOD OF MUSCLE
ABOUT MY SCANNING PROJECT: Bringing Historic Fit And Fabulous Photos Out Of The Archives And Onto The Internet By Bill Dobbins THE BODYPHOTOGRAPHER http://www.gofundme.com/fhu600 A quality scan of Laura Creavalle done for a book. Unfortunately, too many in my files don’t look this good. “What exactly do you mean by scanning?” Somebody who has always… Read More SCANNING PHOTOS OF FIT AND FABULOUS FEMALES
THE CHALLENGE OF PRINT MAGAZINES In this age of diminishing sales of print magazines, it makes sense for publications to try and maximize the audience for their publications. But most of the physique/bodybuilding magazines have ignored a potentially very large group of readers – the thousands of women all over the world who compete in… Read More MAGAZINES MISS OUT ON FIT AND FABULOUS FEMALES
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