Background information
"Since the early 1980s, Britishn photo artist Joy GREGORY has used her talent for making 'Objects of Beauty' to work through themes of race, gender and identity, so that they are both beautiful and about beauty, using a variety of photographic media including photograms, gum bichromates, cyanotypes and video stills. The 'Handbag Project', for instance, features images of 1950s women's purses-beautiful and seemingly innocent. These are items found in Johannesburg junkshops that take on depth and power as symbols of white privilege. The work of Joy GREGORY has been exhibited worldwide and in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.Content
This mid-career survey features eleven series of photographs by Joy GREGORY - exquisite objects that explore the representation of black women. Each series is contextualised by her commentary. With a short essay by Deborah Willis, curator of exhibitions at the Center for African American History and Culture in Washington, DC." (© Chris Boot, 2004)
- Format
- HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 12 x 17 cm., 500 pp., color ills., English
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