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Exhibition


TIMELESS:

The New Men of Physique Pictorial

July 9 - August 29, 2026

Opening Reception:
July 9, 2026
6 - 8 PM PST

Main Gallery

Free to Members and the Public



A new generation of photographers picks up where Bob Mizer left off — twenty-five artists from around the world, one timeless vision of the male form.

Some things in art do not age, and the male figure is one of them. From Michelangelo onward, artists have traced its union of strength and grace. In 1951, Bob Mizer carried that vision to the printed page with Physique Pictorial, a pocket-sized magazine that — beneath its healthful-living surface — was the first of its kind made for gay men, and one he defended against censorship for nearly fifty years.

The Bob Mizer Museum and Photographic Archives relaunched Physique Pictorial in 2017. The images on these walls are drawn from that relaunch: twenty-five photographers from around the world, each shaped by Mizer's work, placing the male form in fields, on back roads, and in otherworldly settings all their own. The censorship has only moved online. The vision endures.

"So many twenty-first-century artists draw on a mid-twentieth-century photographer is a testament to the staying power of his vision. At a moment when the very meaning of 'masculinity' feels contested, their work remains a love letter to the strength and grace that have inspired admiration for centuries."

Dennis Bell
Founder, of the Bob Mizer Museum and Photographic Archives