Summer '57/Summer '09 (Group 2) (Eté 57/ été 09)
2009
Summer '57/Summer '09 (Group 2)
(Eté 57/ été 09)
2009
First a photojournalist, Lorna Simpson abandoned documentary photography for a more conceptual practice that engages with racism and the struggle for equal rights. The series Summer 57/09 combines old found photographs featuring a middle-class Afro-American woman of the 1950s with recent self-portraits. The stereotyped poses of the older images raise the question of the representation of the black body through their mobilisation of clichés of race and gender, while the juxtaposition of the two series challenges traditional distinctions between original and copy, artist and model, reality and fiction.
| Domain | Photo |
|---|---|
| Techniques | Epreuves gélatino-argentiques |
| Dimensions | 12,7 x 12,7 cm |
| Acquisition | Don de la Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris-Bruxelles) en 2010 |
| Inventory no. | AM 2010-123 (1-12) |
Detailed description
| Artist |
Lorna Simpson
(1960, États-Unis) |
|---|---|
| Main title | Summer '57/Summer '09 (Group 2) (Eté 57/ été 09) |
| Creation date | 2009 |
| Domain | Photo |
| Description | Ensemble de 12 photographies montées séparément dans cadres en plexiglas |
| Techniques | Epreuves gélatino-argentiques |
| Dimensions | 12,7 x 12,7 cm |
| Printing | 2/2 |
| Acquisition | Don de la Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris-Bruxelles) en 2010 |
| Collection area | Cabinet de la photographie |
| Inventory no. | AM 2010-123 (1-12) |
Bibliography
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