Ready for their close-up :: Couple auctions major Hollywood photography collection
Those who love Hollywood photography are in for a rare treat this weekend when Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer, owners of the largest, privately held collection of glamour photography, open their vaults for the first time to sell their photographic and fine art masterpieces.
For more information on the auction, visit Profiles in History or the event’s Facebook page.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit many of the charitable organizations they passionately support, primarily the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center on which Epstein served as board member for 7 years and The Trevor Project, a non-profit endeavor established to promote acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and to aid in crisis and suicide prevention among that group.
Mel Roberts collection
This multi-million dollar live, worldwide auction will include the complete Mel Roberts archive. To be sold intact, the collection several thousand vintage prints with many unpublished, black and white negatives and color transparencies, as well as his personal video collection. All reproduction rights and copyrights for his name and photographs will also be part of this archive. First published in a physique magazine in the early 1960s, Roberts took over 50,000 photographs of nearly 200 male models, many of them friends and lovers. They were not the perfectly bodied men common in the physique magazines of the time but tanned in the California sun and casually posed by the pool or beach.
In 2003, The New Yorker described his "witty Technicolor pictures" as "capturing all the giddy delights of being young during summertime..." Mel Roberts’ photographs are included in many notable collections in Hollywood.
