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JACK & MACK is a book of photographs by San Francisco artist Chris Komater of bear porn stars Jack Radcliffe and Mack in poses taken from Renaissance paintings. The men are photographed nude, from head to mid-thigh, against a black background, their bodies and gestures experienced from a new perspective. Chris Komater challenges and subverts received ideas of beauty and the representation of the male body. The bear movement embraces an ideal of beauty outside of the mainstream, exalting men with lots of body hair and heavy builds. For his photo series ""Jack & Mack,"" Komater photographed two stars of bear porn films. He's torqued these images with a different kind of artifice, posing Jack and Mack in gestures borrowed from the Renaissance paintings of Caravaggio and Bellini, bringing together two very different registers of physical expression and blurring the distinction between the sacred and the profane. Accompanying the photos are essays by Les K. Wright, bear historian, photographer and author; Robert Glück, New Narrative co-founder, writer and artist; and Earl Jackson, essayist and author of Strategies of Deviance, Studies in Gay Male Representation.

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Chris Komater is a San Francisco-based artist. His photographs and sound installations have been shown at MAG Galleries, Cheryl Haines Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Arts, Meridian Gallery, and the LAB Gallery in San Francisco; Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland; Jan Kesner Gallery in Los Angeles; Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston, and many other venues. He is the recipient of a WESTAF-NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, a Market Street Art-in-Transit grant, and was the founding director and curator of Secession Gallery, a gallery without walls in San Francisco, and the online arts venue, Marjorie Wood Gallery.

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