Rineke Dijkstra
Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26 1992
© Courtesy of Rineke Dijkstra and Anthony D'Offay
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Session 6: Baby
Butches and Reluctant Lolitas: Performances of Adolescence
Speaker: Catherine Grant, art historian and
editor at Black Dog Publishing
Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene
are contemporary photographers who are both known for their seductive,
glossy portraits of adolescent girls, coming to prominence in the
1990s with a number of other women photographers who focus on the
adolescent in their photography. Their portraits play with traditional
voyeuristic modes of looking, with the older female photographer
taking the place of the voyeuristic male and the model taking the
place of 'Lolita'. Catherine Grant considers the performances
that take place in their photographs, addressing issues of 'queer'
looking and the construction of a sexualised identity. Examples
from the history of photography are brought in, including EJ Bellocq's
portraits of prostitutes from the 1910s and Karlheinz Weinberger's
portraits of biker boys from the 1950s.
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Suggested Further Reading
- Bush, Kate, Hellen van Meene: Portraits,
New York: Aperture, 2004
- Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism
and the Subversion of Identity, London and New York: Routledge,
1990
- Butler, Judith, "Melancholy Gender
/ Refused Identification", in The Psychic Life of Power:
Theories in Subjection, Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 1997
- Princenthal, Nancy, "Body Count: Recent Photographs
of Women by Women, and Some Precedents," Artext, no. 72, 2000,
pp 64-71
- Townsend, Chris, Vile Bodies: Photography and the
Crisis of Looking, Germany and New York: Prestel, 1998, (on
Collier Schorr)
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