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.
posted by mahorn to Media & Arts (3 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Response by poster: Published post 1995, I mean.
posted by mahorn at 7:44 PM on May 20, 2018


Best answer: 'Gymnasium' by Luke Smalley
posted by mdrew at 9:12 PM on May 20, 2018 [2 favorites]


Response by poster: That is it! Thanks, Metafilter and mdrew!
posted by mahorn at 3:40 AM on May 21, 2018


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