Simonson Archives 1979
In 1979 we’re at the very beginning of my dawning self-awareness as an artist of the male nude. I was still very tentative about it, and was mostly working from photos I found in then-popular gay magazines like Mandate, Honcho, Blueboy, etc., although I did use myself as a model sometimes! I copied the bodies but invented my own faces to put on them. I was a bit obsessed with local Hawaiian boys at the time, most of whom were part-Asian, so I was using photos I found in magazines, and sometimes photos of myself, to create my own local-boy fantasy men with Asian-Polynesian features.
Here’s one of the selfies I took way back when I had no models and needed nude male bodies to draw from.
These are the kind of gay skin mags I used back in 1979 as a source of images to draw from. In those days they showed almost exclusively white guys.
In this gallery: a selection of works produced by Douglas Simonson in 1979. All works have been sold.
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