Athletic Model Guild - Timeline

Timeline

• 1943: Bob Mizer stands in as a nude model for lighting tests for Fred Kovert of Hollywood
• 1945: Bob Mizer opens AMG Studios in Los Angeles
• 1946: Forrester Millard becomes AMG's first cataloged model
• 1947: Bob Mizer spends 1 year at Saugus Prison Farm for distributing images of male frontal nudity through the US Postal Service
• 1951: First issue of Physique Photo News (the precursor to Physique Pictorial) is published in May
• 1951: Physique Photo News is renamed Physique Pictorial in November
• 1952: Bob Mizer travels to Europe and photographs models
• 1957: 1000 Model Directory, a catalog of all former AMG models, is released
• 1963: AMG publishes Young Adonis magazine
• 1966: Grecian Guild Studio Quarterly releases catalog of AMG models
• 1967: Mizer discovers Joe Dallesandro, of Andy Warhol fame, and shoots him fully nude in the AMG studio
• 1968: Obscenity laws are revised to allow male frontal nudity
• 1973: Inside AMG, a documentary about the studio, is shot at the AMG compound
• 1975: Future Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenneger, poses for Mizer.
• 1980: Upon the suggestion of Old Reliable's David Hurles, Mizer begins experimenting with new video technology
• 1982: Gay Sunshine Press publishes Physique: A Pictorial History of Athletic Model Guild
• 1987: French publisher releases Athletic Model Guild: 160 Garçons Americans by Ralf Marsault
• 1990: Campfire Films produces the first of five documentaries about the studio, entitled Fantasy Factory
• 1992: Bob Mizer dies from cardiac arrest in a Los Angeles hospital
• 1992: Bob's brother Joe, sole heir to the AMG estate, dies and the collection is passed on to Mizer's friend, Wayne Stanley
• 1994: Stanley closes the doors of the LA compound and moves AMG to Northern California
• 1997: Taschen publishing releases The Complete Physique Pictorial, a three volume reprint of the magazine from 1951 to 1990
• 2004: Former Falcon Studio photographer, Dennis Bell, purchases the AMG estate
• 2004: AMG releases the first production from AMG in 12 years, Best Size 35
• 2005: Bell releases first full-length hardcore AMG feature, AMG Resurrection, starring Jason Adonis
• 2006: AMG launches AMG Brasil, a premium brand of hardcore shot entirely on location in Brazil.
• 2009: TASCHEN Books releases Bob's World: The Life and Boys of AMG's Bob Mizer, edited by Dian Hanson
• 2010: AMG establishes the Bob Mizer Foundation, dedicated to the preservation and education of gay physique photography.