Some are friends (including his wife Aline, and Eden of the East River String Band); some are strangers he has encountered in person, or seen in
photos; some are sports personalities and
celebrities drawn from press photographs (among them, Serena Williams and Lady Gaga); a few are from life modelling classes, and others are from an early 20th - century magazine, also called Art & Beauty, which
collected «semi-erotic images of life models for art lovers and aspiring painters».