Photographers - Part 69

Allan Teger

Allan Teger, born in 1942, was a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1975, thinking about how the structure of the universe repeated itself at different levels, an image came into his mind of a skier going down a woman's breast.  He knew he needed to capture that image, and more like it, on film.  He was a self-taught photographer, not a professional.  But he started making a series of photos that he called bodyscapes.  Above, Skier.

He left academics in 1981 to devote himself full-time to art photography.  Most of his bodyscapes were made using the female body, but he made some using the male body.  All of the remaining images are of male bodies.  Above, Crane, 1985.

Teger did not resort to photographer's tricks like using double exposures (or, these days, using Photoshop).  All of his images were made using little scale models actually placed on the body.  Above, Climbers.

In Climbing the mountain climbers are climbing up a muscular male arm.

Golf Cart.

Motorcycle.

Ski Bumm shows some skiers on a male landscape to complement the first skier image that we saw on a female breast.

We end with Big Turtle.