Nowadays nearly everyone is a member of a gym, and perfecting the body beautiful is taken to the point of obsession. This phenomenon can be traced back to one man: Anthony Sansone (1905-1987), the first male physique icon and the most admired bodybuilder of his time. Like his contemporary Rudolph Valentino, Sansone was one of the first to make male beauty a desirable commodity. Images of Sansone's body spurred the physical culture movement that would sweep the country. Through innumerable reproductions of his photographs, ...
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Nowadays nearly everyone is a member of a gym, and perfecting the body beautiful is taken to the point of obsession. This phenomenon can be traced back to one man: Anthony Sansone (1905-1987), the first male physique icon and the most admired bodybuilder of his time. Like his contemporary Rudolph Valentino, Sansone was one of the first to make male beauty a desirable commodity. Images of Sansone's body spurred the physical culture movement that would sweep the country. Through innumerable reproductions of his photographs, his fitness program publications, and the three gyms he founded, Sansone set and shaped the physical ideal that a whole generation of men would follow. A charismatic figure, Sansone moved within a number of worlds and interacted with some illustrious characters: art (Gertrude Whitney), bodybuilding (Charles Atlas), dance (Alexandre Gavrilov), Hollywood (Johnny Weissmuller), theater (David Belasco), and photography (Nickolas Muray). American Adonis uncovers the lost story of Sansone's life along with stunning reproductions of his sculpted, godlike body, many of which have not been seen in more than fifty years.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. 2004 1st edition with numerous B&W illustrations; tightly bound in laminated pictorial boards with white lettering to spine; corners slightly bumped. Dust jacket has tiny tear to top edge close to hinge; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. 4to-over 9æ-12" tall. Large format quarto volume bound in printed pictorial paper covered boards, in publisher's dust-jacket repeating the same image in a reduced size. 144 pages. Foreword by Kenneth R. Dutton. Illustrated with more than 120 black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. A pictorial review of the life of bodybuilder and physique icon Tony Sansone (1905-1987), seen through dozens of his classically framed photos and the variegated array of famous personalities with whom he interacted which included among others Gertrude Vanderbilt, Charles Atlas, Rudolph Valentino and Isadora Duncan. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($45.00 price intact on back). Published by Universe Publishing, 2004. Quarto. Pictorial boards with brown endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear and a few small nicks on top edge. A fine copy of this collection of sensual photographs of Italian-American model and bodybuilder Tony Sansone. 144 pages. ISBN: 9780789310729. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
