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 EVOLUTION OF BODYBUILDING Competitive bodybuilding went through a major growth spurt in the 1970s and 1980s after a period of very slow evolution starting in the 1940s. The public had gotten a very narrow view of bodybuilding over the years. Steve Reeves, one of the most beautiful human beings ever on the planet, certainly made… Read More WHAT IS NEEDED TO FIX PRO BODYBUILDING?
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
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
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
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
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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