LIGHTWEIGHT BODYBUILDING – NOT PHYSIQUE

LIGHTWEIGHT BODYBUILDING – NOT PHYSIQUEA Category With Traditional Standards By Bill Dobbins THE BODY PHOTOGRAPHER Lightweights and heavyweights together at the Ms. Olympia SPORT VS. BEAUTY CONTESTThe Ms. Olympia in 2020 featured these categories: bodybuilding, physique, fitness, figure and bikini. These are all competitions for extreme athletes that involve a tremendous amount of physical effort and dieting… Read More LIGHTWEIGHT BODYBUILDING – NOT PHYSIQUE

November 5, 2014January 3, 2021 billdobbins3 Comments

BODYBUILDING FOR WOMEN AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION

Bodybuilding for women is a shockingly novel development in our world. “Something new under the sun.” And a phenomenon that has deep implications to our view of the female body, sexuality, gender and a host of sociological, philosophical and health implications. As women bodybuilders have continued to evolve and create more muscular bodies since they… Read More BODYBUILDING FOR WOMEN AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION

September 25, 2014December 13, 2017 billdobbins3 Comments

THE BODYBUILDING METHOD

THE BODYBUILDING METHOD Where it came from, How it Works By Bill Dobbins Bodybuilding as a sport – the Grand Opera of the human body. WHAT IS BODYBUILDING? People tend to think of bodybuilding as a bunch of hyper-muscular men (or women nowadays), wearing brief posing trunks, oiled-up and hitting posing on stage in a… Read More THE BODYBUILDING METHOD

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THE REVOLUTION THAT IS BODYBUILDING

THE REVOLUTION THAT IS BODYBUILDING Where It Came From, Where It’s Going By Bill Dobbins ORIGINS Strength training is an ancient human practice. Sometime in the past 15 thousand years people who formerly lived as hunter/gathers moved into villages, towns and later cities. As they accumulated land and property the need developed to defend what… Read More THE REVOLUTION THAT IS BODYBUILDING

May 18, 2014May 18, 2014 billdobbinsLeave a comment

SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

BODYBUILDING FOR WOMEN: SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN By Bill Dobbins It can hardly be a revolution if everyone agrees with you at the beginning. Can it? IN THE BEGINNING Women who develop the muscles of their bodies for primarily aesthetic purposes is something brand new in our culture. Charles Gaines, author of Pumping Iron,… Read More SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

May 4, 2014April 11, 2020 billdobbinsLeave a comment

THE FEMALE PHYSIQUE AND MY ART PHOTOS

MY NEW GALLERY ASSOCIATION I have consciously been doing fine art photos of aesthetically muscular female physiques for decades. I would quite often ask myself how a given image would look on the wall of a museum or gallery. Over time my photos have been exhibited in two museums, a half dozen galleries and been… Read More THE FEMALE PHYSIQUE AND MY ART PHOTOS

April 19, 2014April 9, 2020 billdobbins3 Comments

FREE PHOTOS ARE LIKE FREE ADVICE…

FREE PHOTOS ARE LIKE FREE ADVICE: EASY TO COME BY, NOT WORTH MUCH If you have ambitions that require some kind of marking or promotion using photographs, unless your photos are good enough you are essentially wasting your time. If you rely on getting photos for free from somebody who is a camera owner… Read More FREE PHOTOS ARE LIKE FREE ADVICE…

April 14, 2014April 20, 2014 billdobbinsLeave a comment

MAGAZINES MISS OUT ON 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

September 23, 2013February 22, 2015 billdobbinsLeave a comment

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