Gina Pane

Jennifer Blessing

Arts & Photography

University of Southampton, Industrial Archaeology Group

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated matt laminated wrappers. Essays by Jennifer Blessing, Carole-Anne Tyler, Sarah Wilson, Nancy Spector, Judith Halberstam and Lyle Ashton Harris. Photographic works by Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Hannah Höch, Jürgen Klauke, George Platt Lynes, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Christian Marclay, Annette Messager, Pierre Molinier, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, Inez van Lamsweerde, Andy Warhol and Madame Yevonde. Includes artists' biographies (with bibliographies), an index of reproductions and notes on the contributors. Designed by Bethany Johns Design, New York. 224 pp., with 156 color and black and white illustrations. 13 x 9-7/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1997 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. From the publisher: "This important volume, whose title combines Gertrude Stein's famous motto "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," with the name of Marcel Duchamp's feminine alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, features portraits, self-portraits and photomontages in which the gender of the subject is highlighted through performance for the camera or through technical manipulation of the image. In many of the works, photography's strong aura of realism and objectivity promotes a fantasy of total gender transformation. In other pieces, the photographic representation articulates an incongruity between the posing body and its assumed costume."

Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography

Nancy Spector

sarah-wilson

Judith, Halberstam

Lyle Ashton, Harris

Carole-Anne, Tyler

Individual Artists

The Solomon R.Guggenheim Foundation

Speaking With Hands

In October 1993, Henry M. Buhl purchased a photograph by Alfred Stieglitz of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands. This photograph would come to be the cornerstone of a private collection that now includes over one thousand images by the medium's foremost practitioners as well as little-known and emerging artists. Focusing on the theme of the hand, Buhl has gathered images spanning the history of photography, from a photogenic drawing negative made in 1840 by William Henry Fox Talbot to serial Polaroids made in 2002 by Cornelia Parker. The collection also encompasses a comprehensive range of photographic practices, including scientific, journalistic, and fine-art photography, with a strong component of contemporary art. Published on the occasion of a major exhibition drawn from The Buhl Collection, this book demonstrates the prevalence of the hand as a photographic theme, a result, in part, of photography's easy ability to capture fragments and detail, as well as ephemeral movement. The selected works depict the hand literally, in the context of portraiture, for example, as well as figuratively, in terms of the poetic emphasis given to hand gestures in documentary images. In artistic images created from the 1920s to the present, the hand is abstracted and subsequently treated as a conceptual device. Jennifer Blessing explores the nature of collecting photographs and why hands are in many ways a uniquely photographic theme. Kirsten A. Hoving emphasizes the prevalence of hands in Surrealist photographs and prose. Ralph Rugoff discusses the uncanny aspects of hands in contemporary art that uses photography. The catalogue entries, written by Matthew S. Witkovsky with Melanie Mariio and Nat Trotman, cover 150 artists and 168 works, forming a useful resource for the study of the history of photography.

Ralph Rugoff

Kirsten A. Hoving

Photography & Video

Guggenheim Museum

Robert Mapplethorpe And The Classical Tradition

Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition

GERMANO CELANT

Germano & IPPOLITOV CELANT

Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S.

This comprehensive new exhibition catalogue, published to accompany the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's major mid-career survey of Catherine Opie's work, is the first to gather all of the artist's key projects to date in a single volume. Opie is best known for her subtle but potent portraits of people from the queer communities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. In this definitive volume, each of Opie's series--among them Portraits, Freeways, Domestic, Icehouses and In and Around Home--is reproduced in full color plates alongside works that were not displayed in the exhibition, allowing for the most complete overview of this important Los Angeles artist's work to date. In addition, this volume features a lead essay by exhibition curator Jennifer Blessing, which surveys Opie's artistic career and its historical contexts; a series of interviews with the artist by Russell Ferguson, Chair of the Department of Art at UCLA; and a brief personal reflection by internationally renowned novelist Dorothy Allison, whose work explores many concerns similar to Opie's. It also includes introductory essays on each of the artist's series by Nat Trotman, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim, as well as a newly researched, exhaustive exhibition history and bibliography, making it the primary source for future research on Opie's work. Catherine Opie was born in Ohio in 1961 and is currently Professor of Photography at UCLA. Opie's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. She has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others.

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

Russell Ferguson

Dorothy Allison

Nat Trotman

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