A PLAYBOY LEGACY
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Over 2024, I completed a project I call A Playboy Legacy. This art book is the project. And it’s something pretty different than any art that I’ve done.
With A Playboy Legacy, each day I would sit down and go through my father’s magazine archive and create a collage using the imagery. I often would tear out the images with my hands, just as I did when I was a kid. It became my goal to build a new piece of artwork from the magazines. I did just that. Over and over again. Hundreds of collages. Each day.
The year of collage-making inspired me. It gave my insight into my own psychology. It was fun. And it was a way to share my dad’s Playboy collection with folks around the world through this book.
Though Playboy is a controversial publication for many reasons, I hope that this book will shed light and remind folks that it showcased some of the most incredible photography, illustrations, and writing for many decades.
I hope you enjoy.
On the book, Danziger states:
"As a child, my fascination with visual art was strong. I was constantly creating, and I was also exploring “Curatorially.” Basically, I would find elements in books and magazines, and without consent, I’d rip out the visual parts that I liked from said publication and keep them. For me, it was an artistic practice, the ripping. This was something that I did until I was told that it was wrong to do. I eventually stopped.
Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
My Curatorial side, ripping out visuals I liked, lay dormant for four decades. During that time, I focused my attention on more mainstream expressions of art creation. Most notable is my work in Conceptual Art. But the floodgates of my past desires to rip up images I liked were reborn with the project A Playboy Legacy. Through this process of creating a collage per day, from a magazine, on one notecard, I granted myself permission to explore and indulge in the Curatorial Art practice I had as a child. It felt good to rip and tear and create these collages. It felt better than good. It felt great."
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