By the time the photographer Bob Mizer died, in 1992, at the age of 70, he had produced more than a million negatives. “He has been called a forerunner of Robert Mapplethorpe, with his high-contrast, often black-and-white renderings of the body’s architecture,” Daniel Wenger writes. “But there’s just as much reason to consider Mizer the gay Hugh Hefner—a tireless collector of physical specimens.” See Mizer’s photos.

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 By the time the photographer Bob Mizer died, in 1992, at the age of 70, he had produced more than a million negatives. “He has been called a forerunner of Robert Mapplethorpe, with his high-contrast, often black-and-white renderings of the body’s architecture,” Daniel Wenger writes. “But there’s just as much reason to consider Mizer the gay Hugh Hefner—a tireless collector of physical specimens.” See Mizer’s photos.

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