John Coplans

very not very typical approach, subject and idea

using himself as subject (but cropping his face out), exploration of self, exploration of body

the body is far from ideal, it's ageing, its not the typical ideal image of the male body, not muscular, not young, not traditionally "pretty"

His work also stands as a riposte to the cult of youth and beauty represented by commercial photography and what he saw as the vanities of the 1980s art world.