MS. OLYMPIA LENDA MURRAY: Her Career As A Promoter By Bill Dobbins Eight Time Ms. Olympia Lenda Murray was a competitive track athlete before she became a professional bodybuilder. So she is highly aware that the nature of sport is that it is progressive – that is, records are made to be broken, performances will… Read More MS. OLYMPIA LENDA MURRAY: Her Career As A Promoter
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
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
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
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…
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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