DAVISICON: Recumbent

'Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, On the cover of a magazine'

William from DAVISICON has been interested in fashion and photography since he was a young boy. There was an excitement at walking into stores and seeing issues of GQ and Vogue. Even at just 11 or 12 years old, William was inspired by the iconic images of models and celebrities on the covers and within the pages. While in high school in the eighties he was especially taken with male models,especially those sporting long beautiful hair.

'I began loving/studying fine art/high fashion at a very young age. I became a regular reader of GQ, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Taxi,etc...,and admirer of Ritts, Newton, Avedon, Mapplethorpe, Warhol, Leibovitz, Gorman, Webber, Scavullo, as well as La Chapelle and Pierre et Gille, etc.....'
William from DAVISICON

The process of choosing images for magazine features, and especially for the cover is not random. Hundreds of images are taken and the choice of 'the' right images is painstakingly done. It is not fluke that many of of the images by the artists William admires have become iconic. It is this theme, striving for just the right image, that one shot that stands out from the rest, the cover shot, that drives the work of the San Antonio photographer.

'With the right model, a photograph can make you do many things. it can make you think, laugh, smile, cry, want, need, and of course it can make you wanna be the "model" or even better "it can sell you something" you didn't know you wanted or needed!'

While spending time with William's work, I was especially struck with how much I loved his shots were of models in the horizontal position. There is a different feel to his images of men laying and a beautifully different message in the repose.

‘I often view a male standing as a position of power, strength, and authority which is always nice, but more important for me, a man lying down presents a more relaxed, sensual and vulnerable position, which to me is much more beautiful! I think many hesitate to present a male in this type of position, because of traditional roles.’

You can check out more of the work of DAVISICON on ModelMayhem and William's official site HERE:

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