Vintage Male Nude - 1940's Crazed Portrait of Tattooed Man by Bernard KOBEL 5x7

Description

This slightly crazed portrait of tattooed man
was taken
by famed freak photographer
Bernard L Kobel,
in the 1940's or 50's.
5 x 7 inches,
In very good condition, slight wear.
On reverse:
Bill Bilbey of England
Bernard Lyle Kobel,
born in 1906, lived a very full life during in his 79 years. He was a Lone Scout, photographer, photojournalist, writer, stamp collector, cartoonist, poet, World War II Army veteran and more. His parents started a mail-order business, which he took over, selling photographs of all sorts of unusual subjects, including odd houses, freak animals and vegetables, unusual epitaphs, women weight lifters and tattooed people.
The tattooed people collection numbered over 1700 photographs.