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Russ Warner was born on 1917 in United States, is an American photographer (1917–2004). Discover Russ Warner'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?

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1917

Russ Warner (1917–2004) was an American physique photographer.

Warner was born Russell S. Warner in 1917.

1950

His photographs of bodybuilders appeared widely in physique and bodybuilding magazines of the 1950s and 1960s.

His photography studio was initially located in Oakland California; he later relocated to the Los Angeles area.

He sold nude photographs by mail order up to the late 1950s.

1951

At some point before 1951, Warner was interviewed in Washington by postal inspectors regarding his distribution of nude photographs with "inked-in" posing straps (a common practice at the time, which allowed customers to easily remove the doctored pouch to reveal the full photo).

Warner's studio was one of six featured in the debut issue of Physique Pictorial (then titled Physique Photo News) in 1951, the first of the gay-oriented physique magazines which would achieve wide popularity through the 1950s and early-to-mid 1960s.

Warner, along with Bob Delmonteque, George Quaintance, Anthony Guyther (aka Vulcan Studios), and the studio Christopher, calling themselves the "Big Five" of the physique business, founded the physique magazine Fizeek.

1954

Warner was known as the inventor in 1954 of an indoor lighting technique known as "rim lighting", in which he used floodlights to light a model against a black backdrop to highlight the details of their body.

1955

In 1955, Warner's studio was raided.

As a result, Norm Tousley, a man who had modelled for Warner in a posing strap, was fired from his position as a lieutenant of the Oakland Fire Department.

Investigators and prosecutors typically targeted physique photographers, publishers, and consumers; scholar Thomas Waugh characterizes this incident as "the most prominent case involving victimization of a model".

1957

They published only a single issue, in 1957, before the title was later relaunched in 1959 by H. Lynn Womack.

1960

During the early 1960s, Warner worked for Joe Weider, providing photographs for his organization's wide catalogue of magazines, which included gay-oriented posing strap titles like Tomorrow's Man and Vim, as well as titles which were seriously devoted to bodybuilding and physique culture, such as Muscle Builder and Mr. America.

Warner continued taking photographs for bodybuilding magazines for several decades thereafter.

2004

He died on 21 October 2004 in Escondido, California.

Originally a bodybuilder himself, Warner began photographing fellow bodybuilders after World War II.

Unlike many other prominent physique photographers of the time, Warner was heterosexual, though he was aware that gay men comprised a significant portion of the audience for his photos.

He photographed models in posing straps as well as in the nude.

Warner's models included many bodybuilding titleholders and fitness experts.

He famously photographed the duo of Junior Mr. America Jack Thomas and future television star Jack LaLanne in the nude.

LaLanne later attempted to buy and destroy all prints of the photo set, apparently out of concern for their homosexual connotation.