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Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon
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Author
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Robert Mainardi.
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Publisher
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Council Oak
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.3
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8.4
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0.6
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ISBN
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9781571781017
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Pages/Publication Date
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112/2001
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Daedalus Item Code
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23296
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This item is not available.
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Description
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(Finalist for the 2002 Lambda Literary Award in Photography/Visual Arts) Assembled from a remarkable collection of 150 vintage photographs made between the 1880s and the 1950s, this compact coffee table book chronicles the body culture that evolved during this period and celebrates the male drive to attain physical perfection. Herculean specimens abound—Tony Sansone (the Most Beautiful Man in America), Eugene Sandow (the Strongest Man in the World), and fitness mogul Jack LaLanne all appear here, testing the elasticity of their posing garb—as well as unknown but equally beautiful men building themselves up to the muscular paragon. Here too are wrestlers locked in gladiatorial combat, acrobats linked in human pyramids, and beach buddies rough-housing in the sand.
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