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Title: Lisa Lyon
Creator: Leonelli, Elisa
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Elisa Leonelli, Photojournalist
Rights Information: Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. For permission, email leonelli@earthlink.net
Photo © Elisa Leonelli, 1983
Description: Lisa Lyon was the first woman bodybuilding champion in 1979, becoming a symbol of the new woman of the 80s: strong, muscular, athletic. The 1983 black and white photo book by Robert Mapplethorpe, Lady: Lisa Lyon, explores the many facets of a woman's body and soul. In 1983 Lisa models the clothes by Gregory Poe, a direct descendant of writer Edgar Allan Poe. Lisa Lyon, first woman bodybuilding champion in 1979, models clothes by Gregory Poe. Los Angeles 1983. Ektachrome. 1983.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: elp02694
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll13/id/2766
Language: English
Subject: Bodybuilding
Lyon, Lisa
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Color photograph: Bodybuilding, Lisa Lyon, Elisa Leonelli photo archives
Relation: Bodybuilding, Lisa Lyon
Elisa Leonelli, Photojournalist - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll13

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