Modern Day
Eugen Sandow, often considered the first modern-day bodybuilder, was an admirer of the human physique, and in addition to strongman sideshows, he performed "muscle displays" by posing in the nude — save for a fig leaf that he would don in imitation of statues he had seen in Italy as a boy.
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“Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.”
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