Allan I. Teger - Bodyscapes 

"Airplane"  Black & White 

9" x 6" Black & White Photograph - Framed 

** Limited Collectors Edition ** - Signed and Numbered 


This Limited Edition Allen Teger black and white photograph is from the Bodyscape Collection.  Bodyscapes appear to be landscapes; a second look shows that they are in fact nude bodies with small toys and miniatures set on them.  The imagery is not a digital image, double exposures and not done with photoshop.  Toys are placed on a model's nude body and photographed together in a single exposure, giving the impression as one image to create surreal and humorous landscapes.  This special and rare piece is of an airplane coasting over the front of a female nude body.  


Signed and numbered at the lower right:  240/250 Allan I. Teger 81

Approx. Measurements: 

Framed - 18" L x 15" H x 1" W (Black wood w/ thin mirror layers around boarder, acrylic)

Image  -  9 1/4" L x 6 1/8" H

Matted Image - 9 3/4" L x 7" H - Boarder around image 1/4" W


About The Artist: 

Originally a social psychologist, Teger is a self-taught photographer who found his creative expression through photography in 1975. Teger generates themes of multiple realities and mystical consciousness through creating bodyscapes that are not constructed in photoshop, however, Teger places miniature structures/toys shooting his work as a single exposure.  The artist walks the fine line between the conscious and the unconscious, the obvious and the hidden. His background (Ph.D. in psychology) led him to the study of consciousness, meditation and spirituality. After years of teaching decided to leave academics to apply and express his understandings that came about through his studies and teaching. 

As a professor of Psychology, his attempt was to show in art that it is possible to see something more than one way, and that both interpretations can be correct. The body as landscape reminds us that nature’s shapes repeat throughout the universe. Nature’s forms are similar in landscape and in the human body. In making these images he was always aware of the viewers experience. If I want the viewer to see a “mountain” then it is important that I also see the body as a mountain. If, instead, I see the body as someone’s rear end, then the viewer will not see the mountain! So – it becomes an interesting discipline for me – forcing me to see beyond the body to the landscape that it represents.Tiger chose the use of black and white because the point of the work is the design, the lighting, the shapes – not the details of the objects. As such, black and white seemed to be more effective. 

Teger created Bodyscapes in 1976 with the intention of showing that it is possible to hold two different perceptions at the same time. The images are also a play on “figure-ground reversals” where the figure (in this case the body) becomes the ground (or landscape)! Two different perceptions, he felt, indicated that it possible to hold two different levels of consciousness – or two different realities - and that was the inspiration behind this work.

The photographs are taken with a Mamiya RB-67 medium format camera with a built in bellows. The images are produced in limited editions. All of the photographs were printed in his own darkroom by and with darkroom assistant under his direct supervision. Everything is produced to archival standards.

This Allan Teger's limited edition art photograph is perfect for the collector of fine art, photography or aviation enthusiast. 


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