Photographic prints and negatives of models, thematic sets, and comic series from Target Studios, circa 1975-1979. Photographer and filmmaker Lou Thomas founded Target Studios in the early 1970s with an eye toward ultra masculine types and themes.

Photographer and filmmaker Lou Thomas founded Target Studios in the early 1970s after leaving Colt Studios which he operated with Jim French (Rip Colt). Thomas shared several models with Colt Studios and his esthetic tended toward the mustachioed leather daddy model that pervaded gay male culture throughout the 1970s.

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