In ‘Then & Now’, a diptych series by Doug Inglish, male models stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their past and present. See more:
who disguised his black-and-white home studio portraits of shirtless bodybuilders as “physique photography.”
The series, shot in Doug’s Hollywood Hills home, is a nod to those photographers who had to shoot in secrecy, one-on-one and behind-closed doors, he says. The sensual symmetry of jockstraps and happy trails are the result of a carefully created atmosphere of trust and attention. Some of the initial photo sessions were the first time the photographer and model met, random go-sees for newcomers to the city, “a casting call sort of moment,” he says.
Each photo is displayed on a 8x10" print, the size of a headshot, those bygone talismans that actors used as business cards with an audition and a prayer. Many of his subjects moved to LA to act. The project started, like many recent projects, during the pandemic. He showed his actor-friend-muse one of their original photos together and thought to recreate it. “I’ve been doing these private pictures for 25 years, and I realised I have this massive library that no one's ever seen,” he says.
Taken as a whole, we learn more about these men than we knew before, which is to say nothing beyond their bodily changes and everything about our own projections about ageing and mortality. The skin matures just as the technology does. Back, the initial photos were shot on a Pentax 67 and are exhibited with the original border of analog film. Thephotos are digitals. Left to right, the two portraits become more than a fleshy fantasy — they evolve.
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