Edmund Chris Nelson (1960 – December 7 2006) was an American photographer and co-founder of Bear Magazine in the 1980s was the photographic pioneer in the gay-oriented erotic photography of mature men with hairy bodies and facial hair. His work directly led to the legitimizing of the bear community as a social group.By profession Nelson was a photomicroscopy researcher at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley Labs.
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