Thursday, June 1, 2023

Second Place

Dan Lurie by Earl Forbes. 

Dan won Most Muscular in three Mr. America contests -- 1942, 1943 and 1944.  In all three of those contests he took second place in the overall.  



8 comments:

  1. Is he circumcised, or just skinned back? I understand circumcision was not common back then. Or could he be Jewish?

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    1. DAN LURIE was born in Brooklyn, NY on April Fools Day, 1923.
      Diagnosed with a heart defect as an infant, his parents were told not to expect him to live to age five. Well, DAN ended up living to 90 and displayed a dogged determination throughout that long life to never let anything hold him back. A scrawny kid, he took up wrestling and weight lifting to build himself up. By age 17 he was a top high school athlete and appearing as a competitive bodybuilder. At age 18 DAN was being photographed nude and seminude by some of the best photographers in New York City.!!
      DAN LURIE was Inducted into the National Jewish Athletics Hall of Fame. !!

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    2. Jewish? Well I guess that answers BD's question. 😋

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  2. His website still exists:
    http://danlurie.com/
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lurie-88
    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GJ5S-T57

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  3. Perfection physique Dan Lurie, masculinite parfaite.
    Perfection photographique Earle Forbes, artiste parfait.
    -Beau Mec a Deauville

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  4. + le fotografie di Forbes erano come belle arti,
    come mostrato in questo bel ritratto di Dan Lurie.
    il bel fisico di Lurie e ben composto e posato.
    Forbes aveva il dono della fotografia raffinita
    nell'eta d'argento dell'era del fisico.

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  5. A calm, sensual image of Lurie by Forbes.
    Earle Forbes (1897-1970) was a master at photography when you consider he used a simple box camera for all his images. The other professional photographers scoffed at Forbes for using such a simple camera, despite their criticisms, Forbes results were exceptional.
    Forbes began as a dancer with the Denishawn dance company, then eventually ventured into photography. Forbes started with portraits of opera singers and ballet dancers, fashion models and eventually male nude studies. Forbes male nude models knew of his homosexuality and made no qualms about it, since Forbes took beautiful photographs of them. -Rj

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