RARE 1940s Vintage SPARTAN KONSTANTINE male nude photo WALT MARCYAN muscle hunk
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RARE 1940s Vintage SPARTAN KONSTANTINE male nude photo WALT MARCYAN muscle hunk:
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RARE 1940s Vintage SPARTAN KONSTANTINE male nude photo WALT MARCYAN muscle hunk
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DESCRIPTION: ULTRA RARE vintage 1940s gelatin silver photograph by photographer SPARTAN OF HOLLYWOOD or KONSTANTINE (see his handwritten credit on recto) of bodybuilder and businessman WALTER MARCYAN. Published in a bodybuilding magazine and comes directly from their photo archive.
SIZE: approx. 8\" X 10\" with white borders
TONE: B&W
FINISH: glossy
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[phone removed by ] (Pacific Standard OF HOLLYWOOD or KONSTANTINE BIOHis name was Konstantine (which is sometimes spelled with a C - Constantine). He was originally a dance photographer (ballet). He took a few nudes of some of the dancers but we have no idea who or if they were stars or just the chorus members (probably the latter). He was rumored to be a student of George Platt Lynes (which I doubt, Lynes NEVER let outsiders anywhere near his studio). I assume he was doing fairly well in that field but apparently he had an overwhelming desire to become a \"boy\" photographer as they were then called. Anyway, he came to Hollywood and somehow met Frederick (Fred) Kovert, who took him on as one of the many, many, many photographers of Kovert Of Hollywood.
Again, much like the notorious Bob Anthony (who never picked up a camera in his life!) the gossip had it Kovert only bought photos or hired other photographers to do the work. One of my friends Cecil (C.C.) Hills was another Kovert photographer and confirmed that Kovert did NO photography. Kovert, BTW, was also an actor (started in SILENT FILMS) and for a time was also a fairly well known drag-queen! Kovert\'s studio was a store front on Melrose Ave in Hollywood (now West Hollywood) just a couple of blocks East of Fairfax. He had full frontal nudes on the walls as you walked in (like Lon of New York had in his walk-in studio). However, unlike New York, LA was definitely NOT READY for those kinds of displays. He was arrested in \'45 or \'46. (One of the very first physique photographers to be busted.)
All the photographers (or at least most of them) left and started their own \"studios\". That was when Konstantine started Spartan. He did take full frontal nudes but was very very discreet about them (you had to \"know someone\" before he\'d show them to you). His little enterprise didn\'t last all that long and from there everyone he knew lost track of him. Where went, what he did...no one seems to know. Alive? Dead? Again, no one knows. That\'s all we were able to find out (about Spartan), except that he had absolutely NO CONNECTION to the Spartan Film Company which came much MARCYAN OBIT:
Walter Marcyan, 94, a Muscle Beach bodybuilder who developed an early multi-station weightlifting machine that helped popularize working out at the gym, died of complications related to old age on Sept. 6 at his Escondido home, his family said.
First manufactured in the 1960s, Marcyan\'s machine \"played a huge role in making gyms a little more friendly to the average man or woman who wanted to train,\" said Terry Todd, a fitness historian and kinesiology professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Marcyan\'s version of the universal weightlifting machine enabled users to do more complicated workouts, Todd said.
Marcyan\'s company, Marcy Fitness Products, became a leading manufacturer of gym equipment in the 1970s, said Tom Lincir, founder of Ivanko Barbell Co. in San Pedro.
Born in 1913 in Chicago, Marcyan performed hand-balancing acts in the 1940s at Santa Monica\'s Muscle Beach. He was also a competitive bodybuilder and weightlifter who won the \"best arms\" trophy in the 1948 Mr. America contest at the Shrine Auditorium.
In 1946, Marcyan opened the House of Health, the first of his seven Los Angeles-area gyms, and began manufacturing exercise benches and machines. After becoming a chiropractor in 1965, he developed machines for professional use.
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RARE 1940s Vintage SPARTAN KONSTANTINE male nude photo WALT MARCYAN muscle hunk:
$48.88