Sunday, October 22, 2017

Joe Napoli

photographed by Bruce Bellas
(also known as Bruce of LA)
circa 1960








This handsome young Italian American also posed for Bruce's cohorts Bob Mizer and Pat Milo, as well as for other less distinguished photographers.  I considered putting them all together in one post, but it seemed that it might be overloading it with his charmed beauty.  I've been searching for more information on him to little avail.  Though there's a fine short film, starring Joe, by Mr Bellas called Look Me Over that has been uploaded to Vimeo, no date is given and I haven't found it on the IMDB site.  Eventually I should be able to correct this lack of information, but I couldn't hold off any longer on giving a loving tribute to him here.


Look Me Over is definitely worth checking out.  The young man was nothing if not spectacular.












These last few are examples of the individual photos Bruce would sell by mail.  One could order them using the information provided in his self published zine the Male Physique.




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