Ritter Brothers

The Ritter Brothers were a pair of New York area bodybuilders who both posed nude and photographed others that way between about 1932 and 1945.

In the 1930's, Fred and William Ritter, brothers who lived in Astoria, Long Island, New York, advertised physique photographs in fitness magazines like Strength and Health.

In the closets of their house, they shot images of themselves and the men they recruited from local gyms. They were physique models & photographers from the 1930's. They would photograph models they picked up in local gyms and brought home for photo sessions, themselves together, themselves separately, and in various combination with those aforementioned models.