Did I ever mention how much it drives me crazy not to know the back-stories on many of the images I find, via auctions, estate sales, tumblr, and google searches? I love knowing the little details of human life. You might call me a yenta, but I have a fetish for life-stories. Maybe that's why I so love being a therapist. I get to hear fascinating life stories every day.
This photo looks about 80 years old, but I can't tell these perfectly perky specimens were nudists or soldiers, a fitness club or a leather family hiding out in the backwoods of Bavaria, so just make up your own explanation and enjoy!
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That looks like Cape Cod to me.If you could enlarge the picture of the structures in the background to the left might help.
Intriguing though.
Do you know about "clickety to embiggen"? ... On most of the photos that Dr. Brame features in her posts, if you click on the photo itself, it will enlarge ... and this photo is really good, because it expands to 1024 x 768 pixels -- on an average laptop screen, it will fill the screen.
Hope this helps ... I would love it if you could help Dr. Brame identify this photo better!
I would love it too. :) By all means, folks, never hesitate to fill in details or provide any ideas/history about these gems I find. I love reading your comments.
P.S. I find it sad to think that each of these men is dead by now, in all likelihood. They left us this intimate share into what they looked like when they were young ... but we won't know the stories of their lives, or even the story of the day the photo was taken.
dibs on #3
That definitely looks like Provincetown, MA, except that they are standing on what looks like grass. If this was Herring Cove Beach, there isn't any grass like that. But that wooden post behind them looks like something at the ocean.
Their hair is all very short. Perhaps they are/were in the military? I wonder if this was taken before/during/after WW1 or WW2? Other than military, during what decade did men wear their hair this short? None but one has much hair on his chest. I wonder if they shaved? That doesn't make sense for back then, so maybe it's just that they are very young?
I feel kind of sad looking at this picture. They are obviously having a good day, and you can tell it's sunny and warm. Time is a weird thing.
Looks like a photo from one of the European nudist camp mags that were sold in "dirty" book stores on 42nd Street (Times Square) during the '60s. (Not that I would know about such things, mind you... hehe)
I think it is America because when you enlarge the photo (thanks AJ), you can see that they are circumscribed. I believe few European men were at time.
Now that I have learned that Michelangelo's Statue of David -- you know, David the King of ancient Israel -- is uncircumcised (someone, please explain THAT one to me!) ... I have learned to conclude absolutely nothing from whether someone is circumcised or not.