Photo book from 20 years ago?
May 20, 2018 7:36 PM Subscribe
Definitely-published post 1997, a book I saw once had tons of photographs of athletes staged to look a hundred years old. Where can I track it down?
In 1999-2002-ish I saw a book at The Strand in NYC, a new release photography book, that I would love to find again.
It was all (or mostly) black and white photos, a glossy coffee-table book, of athletes artificially staged to look like photos from a hundred years ago. It was vaguely homoerotic, but I think the prime motivator of the work was the very old-fashioned staging.
Think: turn of the century college yearbook team photos, including old uniforms and equipment (leather helmets or basketball boots or whatnot, grim faces, and strange groupings), but with current athletes. Like this or this.
Does anyone have any leads I might follow? I know nothing of the photography world.
In 1999-2002-ish I saw a book at The Strand in NYC, a new release photography book, that I would love to find again.
It was all (or mostly) black and white photos, a glossy coffee-table book, of athletes artificially staged to look like photos from a hundred years ago. It was vaguely homoerotic, but I think the prime motivator of the work was the very old-fashioned staging.
Think: turn of the century college yearbook team photos, including old uniforms and equipment (leather helmets or basketball boots or whatnot, grim faces, and strange groupings), but with current athletes. Like this or this.
Does anyone have any leads I might follow? I know nothing of the photography world.
Response by poster: That is it! Thanks, Metafilter and mdrew!
posted by mahorn at 3:40 AM on May 21, 2018
posted by mahorn at 3:40 AM on May 21, 2018
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by mahorn at 7:44 PM on May 20, 2018