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Allan Teger (USA) - Bodyscapes® | High Wire, Fore!

The Bodyscapes® of self-taught American photographer Allan Teger is a series of black and white photographs depicting miniature scenes on the nude body mimicking various landscapes. The images are not double exposures and uses no digital manipulation, only small scale figures arranged on the naked form to illustrate predominantly outdoor activities, where a belly-button may act as a lake or a sculpted derrière as a mountain: “I remember the moment that the idea for Bodyscapes® came to me. I was thinking that the shape and structure of the universe repeated itself at every level and suddenly I had the image in my mind of a skier going down a breast. This was it - the universe repeating its shapes - a body looking like a mountain. It was also an example of two realities coexisting. The picture could be seen as a landscape and it could also be seen as a body. Although they were different, both perceptions were right at the same time. I knew instantly that I had an entire series of images waiting to be captured on film.” The ongoing project started in 1976, with the set updated regularly to this day, most are shot with a medium format mamiya RB67 and either tri-X or t-max film. (cf. Designboom)

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[more Allan Teger | found at Designboom]

Spencer Tunick (b.1967, USA) - Wilderness

Dead Sea 6. C-print mounted between plexi, 48x60 in (2011)
Switzerland, Aletsch Glacier 1 (Greenpeace). C-print mounted between plexi, 48x60 in (2007)

[more Spencer Tunick | artist found at darksilenceinsuburbia]