Lorna Simpson (American, born 1960) created linguistic and metaphorical connections
between photographs of a woman's neckline and words that refer to the horrors of slavery and lynching, while Tomoko Sawada's self - portraits made in a photo booth humorously suggest the malleability of identity based on media stereotypes and outward appearances.
Not exact matches
Yet, Susan Oliver became one
of the most
photographed women of her era, virtually a household name, the female television guest star
of choice
between 1957 and 1973.
Her Tereza is the film's stabilizing force, whereas Lena Olin's Sabina is an icon
of bowler - hatted libertinage; in one epochal scene, Tereza gets Sabina to pose for some nude
photographs, and something subterranean stirs
between these two very different
women.
In the 1930s, she lived in France with the legendary English writer Ford Madox Ford; her brother Jack Tworkov was far better - known as a painter; in New York in the 1940s, she was in the heart
of the Abstract Expressionist scene (she's the
woman in the white blouse
between Bradley Walker Tomlin and Robert Goodnough in a much - reproduced
photograph of the «Studio 35 Artists» Session»
of 1950), but never gained much recognition for her own paintings.
Photographs of European men in the jungle, two monumental paintings by the Dutch - trained Indonesian Romantic painter Raden Saleh, and a portrait
of a Tonkin
woman by French Impressionist Victor Tardieu hint at the complicated flows
of images and ideas
between Europe and its colonies.
In Cindy Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills series, most
of the 69
photographs depict the artist as a archetypal character known from the movies: a housewife, a femme fatale, a working girl, and everything in
between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify
women.
In the first room
of the Schneemann retrospective, among paintings half way
between abstract expressionism and «combine» experiments (reminders
of Rauschenberg's 1960s works), there are a series
of 18
photographs of a
woman in black and white.
Teller removes the artifice
between photographer and subject, leaving only the purity
of each image, and unlike the sculptures in the museum's collection, his
photographs do not present a standard
of beauty but are more akin to a tribute to
women and the human form.
Both sites host Mathilde ter Heijne's ever - growing collection
of photographs of anonymous
women (shot
between 1839 and the 1920s), made into giveaway postcards, with biographies on their versos
of contemporaneous
women whose progressive stories have been largely elided.
Boers works with several artists who are beginning to experience an upsurge in their market, including Qiu Xiaofei, who makes mural - size expressionistic oil paintings based on
photographs and memories
of his childhood (prices are
between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000); Chen Yujun, whose collages reflect the culture
of his hometown in Fujian Province (prices range from $ 30,000 to $ 60,000); and Lu Yang, a young
woman who conveys science - fiction fantasies in videos and digital prints (selling for $ 4,000 to $ 20,000).
Simpson's work — consisting
of two circular framed
photographs focusing on a
woman's mouth, clavicle, and the neckline
of a plain white garment with a list
of words on plastic plates displayed
between them — is representative
of her unique approach to image making.
The exhibition which debuted at Stadthaus Ulm in 2012, now travels to Museum Goch with close to one hundred
photographs from some
of Bieber's most significant series:
Between Dogs and Wolves, 1994 — 2004; Going Home: Illegality and Repatriation, South Africa to Mozambique, 2001; Real Beauty, Survivors, Las Canas,
Women who Murder their Husbands, 2005.
DAVID ZWIRNER Ulrike Ottinger's 1978
photograph Portrait
of Two
Women Drinkers describes a silent encounter
between strangers on opposite sides
of a cafe window.
The Weather is You, a series put together
between 1994 and 1996, is also set in Iceland, consisting
of photographs of a young
woman emerging from various hot springs under different climactic conditions, which in turn subtly affect her facial expression and the composition
of the
photograph.
As an installation
of one hundred close - up
photographs of a
woman, taken in hot pools in Iceland during changing climactic conditions, You are the Weather (1994 - 95) intimately follows the interplay
between a female and the elements, as well as the unspoken exchange
between viewer and subject.