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Retrograph – 1947: Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen & Family

Posted on January 26, 2022

Author: Steve Silverman

Categories: Retrographs

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Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen with wife Pat, and eleven-month-old son Kent.

Photographed by Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine in 1947. Library of Congress image.

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