Photographed with his chest fully expanded. The image below is slightly out of focus due to the Victorian camera having to keep the lens open for several minutes to get enough light into the box to expose the film. In a pose like this, Sandow would have had to hold his breath and stay still for the few minutes of the exposure. A very difficult effort, even for him. In Victorian-era photographs, many action scenes, or even studio images, especially of that of small children, will have a blur because of movement.

The illustration below is from an Austrailian newspaper from 1903, when Sandow visited that country.