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Alonzo Hanagan (Alonzo James Hanagan) was born on 20 December, 1911 in Lexington, Massachusetts, is an American photographer. Discover Alonzo Hanagan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

Popular As Alonzo James Hanagan
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Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 20 December 1911
Birthday 20 December
Birthplace Lexington, Massachusetts
Date of death 4 December, 1999
Died Place Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan
Nationality United States

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1911

Alonzo James "Lon" Hanagan was born in 1911 in Lexington, Massachusetts, the oldest child and only son of Frank and Lizzie Hanagan's three children.

He had two younger sisters, Marry and Betty.

The Hannagan's were a very religious family and although very close, it was a very strict family environment.

The family had a piano and Lon played on it, imitating an organist at the church, which the family attended every Sunday.

He started to work as a teen boy, with his first job delivering fish from a local seller.

In addition to playing music, he wrote and published some songs himself as a teenager.

His first published composition was "A Bunch of Good Fellows Are We", written for a musical, performed by "Good Fellows" group.

He started to play piano and organ on a weekly radio program in Lexington at the age of sixteen.

He also performed in local churches and events.

1928

He moved with his family in 1928 to Lockport, New York, when his father was transferred to the Jefferson Union Plant.

1929

Lon graduated from high school in Lockport in 1929.

In Lockport he worked as an organist at movie theaters.

He befriended a local boy Ralph Ehmke, who became his first boyfriend.

Lon developed an interest in photography while a teenage boy, with his parents buying him a Kodak Box camera.

He learned a darkroom skills in a boy scout camp in New Hampshire.

His early photographs were images of his family, friends, and endless snapshots of Ralph Ehmke.

In camp he also made his first series of male nudes, photographing one of his adult camp counselors fresh from the shower.

1930

In New York City, Lon met a number of physique photographers, and in the late 1930s was taught the basics of physique photography by Robert Gebhart (who worked under the pseudonym "Gebbé").

1936

Lon moved to New York City in 1936.

He studied music in Juilliard School and for some time worked as an organist at Radio City Music Hall.

1940

Alonzo "Lon" Hanagan was an American physique photographer during the 1940s and 1950s.

He produced erotic images of men under the alias "Lon of New York", or simply "Lon".

He mostly worked with Mediterranean, Latino and African American models, which was unusual in the 1940s, when most photographers preferred white models.

His physique and beefcake photography was credited to his creative pseudonym, Lon of New York.

Though Lon was known for a camp demeanour in private, and sometimes photographed drag queens, his physique photography was serious rather than campy, featuring highly masculine models and poses.

Lon's photos were widely featured in popular physique magazines, and he published several magazines of his own: Men and Art, Male Pix, Star Models, and Male Model Parade.

His work is largely to be considered one of the pioneers of physique photography.

He was a contemporary of, and many would argue also inspired, several other photographers in different regions of the country including Bruce Bellas (Bruce of Los Angeles), Bob Mizer (Athletic Model Guild or AMG) Douglas Juleff (Douglas of Detroit), Don Whitman of Western Photography Guild in Denver, and, in Northern California, Russ Warner in Oakland and Dave Martin in San Francisco.

Hanagan's health declined in the early nineties.

1942

In 1942, Lon released his first catalogue of physique photography, and had a series of photographs of bodybuilder John Grimek published in Strength & Health magazine.

After the second world war, Lon devoted himself entirely to physique photography, abandoning his music career.

He was known for using Greco-Roman esthetic in his photographic work.

1961

He rented his first apartment at 617 Weat 113th Street.

He also continued to write and publish music during those years.

1999

He died in Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on December 4, 1999, after a brief hospitalization.

His body was cremated and ashes were scattered at his mother's grave in Lockport.

Most of Lon of New York works were considered too "dirty" to be included in public collections during his career.

Robert Mapplethorpe had some of Lon's works in his personal archive.

His work is also in the permanent collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and in Harry Weintraub Collection Of Gay-Related Photography And Historical Documentation of Cornell University Library.

Despite Hanagan being inactive in photography in the latter part of his life, his photographs were distributed in exhibitions in the United States.