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Neal SlavinContestants: World Body Building Guild, Brooklyn, NY - Color Portrait, Men1974
1974
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Contestants: World Body Building Guild by Neal Slavin is a group portrait featuring 14 men standing on a stage, flexing their muscle for body building guild in New York.
16 x 20 in.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 12
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
From Slavin's series: When Two or More are Gathered Together
*Framing not included
The following is an excerpt from Neal Slavin's book, When Two or More are Gathered Together:
"World Body Building Guild (W.B.B.G), Brooklyn, New York, 1972-75
25,000 members
President: Dan Lurie
This international organization meets in different cities all over the world to hold muscle- and body-building shows and events. They also hold special body-building dinners.
The purpose of the group is to promote physical fitness throughout the world and to sponsor physical-fitness contests.
In order to join the organization, applicants are asked to write for an application.
Members pay $8 for membership and for a subscription to the organi- zation magazine, Muscle Training Illustrated. The organization is also helped through Dan Lurie’s financial contributions. The World Body Building Guild is a non-profit organization.
It was started twelve years ago by Dan Lurie, who has been in the phys- ical-fitness business for thirty-five years.
The organization sponsors the following annual contests: Mr. World, Pro Mr. America, Miss Body Beautiful U.S.A., and Teenage Mr. America. It holds a Mr. International contest in Mexico and a Mr. Canada and Mr. North America contest in Canada. Other contests take place in Greece, Italy, Brazil, and England.
It also grants a Sexiest Man of the Year Award (Burt Reynolds last year; Robert Redford this year)—and a Sexiest Woman of the Century Award which was given to Mae West."
Neal Slavin is a world-class photographer and film director. His well- known photographic books include PORTUGAL with an Afterword by Mary McCarthy (Lustrum Press/NY), WHEN TWO OR MORE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/NY) and BRITONS (Andre Deutsch/London & Aperture/NY).
He has produced and directed countless TV commercials through his own production company, SLAVIN-SCHAFFER FILMS, for clients such as MacDonald’s, Burger King, Hasbro Toys and European American Bank. In addition Slavin’s feature films include FOCUS; written by Arthur Miller, which stars William H. Macy and Laura Dern and features Meatloaf and David Paymer.
His photographs are both privately and publicly collected. They are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (now called The National Media Museum) in London, and the John Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, to name a few.
Slavin shows in both individual and group venues throughout the world. His work has been featured in the solo exhibition BRITONS at New York’s International Center of Photography (ICP) and England’s National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. He has also been honored with a retrospective exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and has been shown at the famous Les Rencontres D’Arles in France. His most recent show was at Foto/Industria Bologna 2015 Biennale.
He has photographed for most of the major magazines around the world including The New York Times Magazine, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Esquire, Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, Oprah Magazine, Rolling Stone, Life, Geo, and New York Magazine to name just a few. His work was recently featured in the online magazine SLATE in its blog called BEHOLD. It was also featured in other online magazines such as Feature Shoot, Internazionale, BuzzFeed, Ain't Bad, and L’Oeil de la Photographie.
Slavin’s work encompasses a professional career of over 40 years, during which he has photographed a myriad of subjects including such celebrities as Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Barbra Streisand and Phil Collins, among others. He has also pursued his own art which has led to the publication of the three aforementioned books.
He has been awarded a Gold Lion in Cannes for advertising, a Silver Cube from the Art Director’s Club of New York, five Addy Awards, and a Mobius Award. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in addition to receiving two CAPS grants and a National Endowment in the Arts grant. The American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) named him Corporate Photographer of the Year. Slavin has been included in Esquire Magazine's article on the Ten Toughest Photographs of 1975. He has also recently been honored with both The Cooper Union School of Art & Architecture’s esteemed President’s Citation and the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal for Artistic Achievement.
Famous past members are Steve Reeves, Joe Bonomo, Rich Park, Sen- ator Jacob Javits, and Charles Atlas.
- Creator:Neal Slavin (1941, American)
- Creation Year:1974
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Denton, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU21515598842
Neal Slavin
Neal Slavin, a native New Yorker, began photographing groups in 1972. He quickly realized that shooting in color yielded greater nuance and detail, placing him among the first generation of photographers, along with William Eggleston and Joel Meyerowitz, to fully embrace color photography.
Over the past four decades, Slavin has recorded hundreds of groups from the most obscure to the most celebrated, both in the United States and abroad: Sabrett Hot Dog vendors, NYC; the Silurian Border Morris Men, Herefordshire; the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City; Elephant Keepers with Katie and Kumara, Bedfordshire; and the Mahayana Buddhist Service, NYC.
He has published three books: Portugal (Lustrum Press, 1971), When Two or More Are Gathered Together (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1974); and Britons (Aperture, 1986). His prints have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York; the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the National Media Museum, London; and the John Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, among many others.
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(Biography provided by Laurence Miller Gallery)
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