Looking for a photo

May 13, 2005 12:33 PM

I'm trying to find to purchase a print/poster/ of a black and white photo i saw a while back (don't remember where but the image stuck with me). It's a picture of a very well-muscled naked torso (from chin to below navel) of a black man, clutching a baby to his chest. I don't know who it's by and all my googling and allpostering has turned up diddly. Can askme help?
posted by ramix to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Could it have been Robert Mapplethorpe? His work is usually more sexual, but that does sound like his style...
posted by kalimac at 12:42 PM on May 13, 2005

I'm pretty sure I've seen that image on the wall calendar of the admin here. Later this afternoon after he leaves, I'll see if it's there.
posted by MrMoonPie at 12:46 PM on May 13, 2005

Could be Anne Geddes. I haven't seen that particular photo but I have a book by her with some photos that are similar. Black man, white baby.
posted by BoscosMom at 6:03 PM on May 13, 2005

Best answer: I'm pretty sure you're looking for an Anne Geddes photo. Is it this one? Or this one?
posted by houseofdanie at 6:37 PM on May 13, 2005

Is it this or this?
posted by null terminated at 6:40 PM on May 13, 2005

My first thought was this one by Jan Saudek -- though now that I've seen it again I realize that the man isn't actually black.
posted by mamatang at 10:32 PM on May 13, 2005