Below is a gallery of some of rare photographs that captured Ernest Hemingway posing shirtless. Big, burly and barrel-chested, Papa projects the masculine image that he carefully cultivated for himself and for the world to see.
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Ernest Hemingway posing as a boxer while wearing a fake mustache, 1920. |
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Ernest Hemingway fishing on a boat in Key West, Florida, 1928. |
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Ernest Hemingway boxing in front of a mirror, 1944. |
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Ernest Hemingway standing with shot-gun indoors at the Finca Vigia, Cuba, circa 1950. |
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Ernest Hemingway and Jean Patchett by Cliff Coffin for Vogue, 1950. |
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Ernest Hemingway in the bath, ca. 1950s. |
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Ernest Hemmingway with sons and kittens in Cuba, ca. 1946. |
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Ernest Hemingway with a machine gun while deep sea fishing. |
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Ernest Hemingway on safari, Kenya, 1954. |
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Ernest Hemingway deep-sea-fishing in waters off Havana, ca. 1950. |
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Ernest Hemingway at the wheel of his boat, Pilar, with Havana in the background, Cuba, 1950. |
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Ernest Hemingway admiring his mirror image, bare-chested and sporting boxing gloves, 1944. |
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Antonio Ordonez and Ernest Hemingway by the pool at La Consula, Spain,1959. |
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Ernest Hemingway in Bimini. |
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