Anderson & Low have produced numerous photographs that explore the physicality and extraordinary achievement of elite athletes. For the Athlete/Warrior series, begun in 2001, the artists photographed collegiate athletes at American military academies. The resulting images are presented as diptychs and triptychs, formats historically associated with marriage portraits, religious icons, and altarpieces in which multiple scenes or subjects combine in an overall composition. In this double portrait, Christopher Dingman of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, appears as a record-setting defensive lacrosse player and as a midshipman in full dress Navy “whites.” His drive and training regimen ultimately resulted in a post as an F-18 fighter pilot for the Marine Corps. Dingman’s erect posture and the chiseled quality of his face and body, enhanced by lush lighting and the prints’ blackand-white tonality, evoke archetypes of male beauty from classical statuary to commercial fashion photography. Comparing these images leads one to consider parallels between the athletic field and battlefield. gift of nancy and tom o’neil, baltimore, bma 2013.329 (Kristen Hileman, New Arrivals: Photographs from the O'Neil Collection, September 2015)