Unknown Models Photographed by Lon

After so many years of collecting and sorting vintage beefcake photographs, I am astonished I have never seen any of these models photographed by Lon.

As Reed Massengill relates in his book, The Male Ideal: Lon of New York and the Masculine Physique, the bulk of Lon's negatives and photographs were either sold off to collectors (often with none of the proceeds going to Lon) or destroyed by law-enforcement officials in the years when photographing nude adults was illegal in the United States.

It's best not to dwell on what's been lost.