Considered the most prominent gay photographer of the male physique in the 20th century, Bob Mizer’s archives have been housed in the former Magazine shop in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district since 2016. Located at 920 Larkin Street, the Bob Mizer Foundation will soon change its name to the Bob Mizer Museum and Photographic Archives, but continues its mission of archiving and preserving the hundreds of thousands of images and films made created by Mizer.

Bob Mizer self-portrait, 1950s (photo: Bob Mizer Foundation)   Bob Mizer (1922-1992), who was born in Hailey, Idaho, lived in Los Angeles during the heyday of his career in the 1950s, and endured some legal difficulties over obscenity laws when he used the Postal Service to send photographs and magazines to fans across the country. He

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