Yale '72 50th Reunion

Lordy, was I excited! I received my formal invitation to the Yale Class of '72 Reunion last June held at Davenport College (I'm a Saybrook man, but that's OK). Unfortunately I was unable to attend, so I dropped the organizers an RSVP saying I would be washing my hair that week. Actually between deconstructing Western Civilization and seducing and abandoning any 20-something gerontophile with big tits still crazy enough to swallow my come dance with me blandishments, I'm just one busy bee!

When asked for my contribution to the 50th Anniversary Reunion Book, I sent along my photos of models, porn stars and assorted wives and girlfriends. I fully expected the following response: "Thank you for helping to make the Yale Class of '72 Yearbook the best ever! Unfortunately, due to space limitations..."

But no! When I check the online galleys, the pics are there! However, I can't find my reflections on life. Well, I guess they have their priorities straight.

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This weekend the actual hard copy arrived - a few months late, but it must have been yeoman's work. The book includes my reflections on life but reduced my carefully winnowed photos down to two. Ah well... they didn't treat me worse than anyone else. Life is hard and then you die.

Honestly, I didn't believe so many boring people could come out of Ivy, with their rotary clubs and law firm gold watches and prized but sensibly few grandchildren.

At a rough count I see 2 suicides one of which is a murder-suicide, and that's Saybrook '72 alone!

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Still I feel the need to share my contributions with the world. For one thing the exciting content is currently available only to myself and my classmates. And over and above that, shouldn't the photos that didn't make the hard copy be bequeathed to posterity? Finally, once I started sorting through the old life's work, I discovered more than a few thousand photos which lay unwept in storage for far too long. It's time for them to see the light of day.

I will probably start with reproducing the details of my bio which was somewhat truncated in the published copy.

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Willis Francis Domingo (Contact information) willisdomingo.com

Residential College: Saybrook Degree: B.A., Philosophy Graduate School: Princeton, M.F.A., Art History, 1975; Oxford, D.Phil, Philosophy, 1982

Honors and Awards: Marshall Scholar

Work Status: Self-Employed IL

Children: Antonia, 1985, B.A. Indiana University, JD Harvard Law

Career Highlights: Professor at Notre Dame, professional photographer, pornographer, e-commerce developer, fuckosopher. Wrote art criticism for Arts Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, L’Art vivant (Paris) and Art Monthly (London). Loads of translations including Adorno’s Against Epistemology. Created and developed the discipline of fuckosophy and launched the fuckosophical movement. You can find a selection of my philosophical writings at https://www.willisdomingo.com

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Personal Photos

Freshman Photo

"Your 1972 yearbook photo (or a comparable photo) will be featured in your profile automatically."

The purpose of the freshman photo is to display the ideal combination of earnestness and savage careerism.

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A Yalie Through the Years

"You may insert up to two more photos into your profile—for example, recent photos of you and/or your family." 

With my assistant at a Xmas party.

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Cancun with a friend.

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At Home with Bree

I didn't expect this pic had a snowball's chance in hell of making the Reunion Book, even heavily bowdlerized as it was. But when I inspected the galleys, there it was. Boola boola!

Let Me Take the Gloves (and Pretty Much Everything Else) Off, for the Official

At Home with Bree

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Professional Photography

These two photo essays were created as part of advertising campaigns for men's and women's casual wear. There are hundreds of photos from each so these images represent no more than a tiny sample.

Chicago - Mackinac

This is a fantasy recreation of the famous Chicago Yacht Club boat race. The scheduled female model unexpectedly showed up with her toddler son whom the boat owners wouldn't allow to board for safety reasons. So my assistant had to fill in. This was Neringa's first and last professional modeling assignment!

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Idol

This fantasy record of a day in the life of a pop idol shot in a recording studio on Clark Street. The studio manager rudely played his music at ear splitting volumes over our objections, so this wasn't a particularly peaceful shoot.

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Porn

"Much of what I shot is pornography which unfortunately can't be shown here. However, I've had the good fortune to work with Playmates, Pets and some of the top names in the business. Here are a few head shots I took of these talented performers." I wrote that for the Reunion Book. Now that I'm free of silly restrictions I can match the head shots with the real thing.

Bree Olson

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Brooke Belle

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Devon

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Eva Angelina

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Jessica Canizales

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Katie Lohmann

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Partying in South Beach with Kayden Kross

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Martina Warren

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Phoenix Marie

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Tanya Danielle

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Fine Arts

Most of my fine arts work was shot on film and I didn't scan the originals in order to avoid the impression that the scans are the finished work. In their place here are some Android snaps of the prints on my walls. My fine arts models were almost all non-professional personal friends and acquaintances.

My little dancer friend instinctively assumed one of the stock poses of a rat de ballet mirroring the Degas photo and the deco lamp.

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Yale Club NYC

Here are some snaps taken at the Yale Club during a visit to NYC. My friends played model before we left for Lincoln Center.

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Catalog and Advertising Work

This was shot at a Ft. Lauderdale Marina.