John Coplans was a British artist, curator, museum director, and critic best known as a founding member and one-time editor-in-chief of Artforum magazine. Coplans’ most famed artworks consisted of a series of black-and-white photos depicting segments of his own naked body, but never his face. “So, I’m using my body and saying, even though it’s a 70-year-old body, I can make it interesting,” he said of the work. “I don’t know how it happens, but when I pose for one of these photographs, I become immersed in the past...I am somewhere else, another person, or a woman in another life. At times, I’m in my youth.” Born John Rivers Coplans on June 24, 1920 in London, United Kingdom, he moved between Cape Town and London throughout his childhood. After...