‘fore!’ by allan teger as part of the bodyscapes® photographic series
Carrying on the awesome miniature work of “Big Appetites“, Designboom has a great look at the nude landscape photography of Allan Teger. Funny, poignant and full of form, his work brings the naked body into a dramatic light, albeit one of golfing greens, sledding hills and train trestles.
Self-taught American photographer Allan Teger has sent designboom new images from his body of work ‘Bodyscapes®’, with 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.
Teger was initially trained as a psychologist, with the Bodyscapes® concept evolving from his teaching as an academic counselor. Teger would lecture readings on tao te ching, the bhagavad-gita, books by ram Dass, carl rogers, huxley, watts and others. The notions of altered realities, subjective reality, and mystical consciousness became part of his artistic understanding.
Teger describes the development of his work:
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.
‘sailboat couple’
‘sailing’
‘tubes’
‘shark’
‘two riders’
‘train’
‘diver’
‘lovers’
‘golfing the rough’
‘dolphins’
‘fishing’
‘bikes’
‘high wire’
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