April Dawn Alison / Erin O'Toole, Hilton Als, Zackary Drucker.

  • Schaefer, Alan, 1941-2008
Date:
[2019]
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Photographs. Selections

Description

"Made over the course of some thirty years, the photographs in this book depict the many faces of April Dawn Alison, the female persona of an Oakland, California based photographer who lived in the world as a man. This previously unseen body of self-portraits, which was given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2017, begins tentatively in 1970s in black-and-white, and evolves in the 80s into an exuberant, wildly colorful, and obsessive practice inspired by representations of women in classic film, BDSM pornography and advertising. A singular, long-term exploration of a non-public self, the archive contains photographs that are beautiful, hilarious, enigmatic, and heartbreakingly sad, sometimes all at once. With essays by Hilton Als (American writer and theater critic for The New Yorker), Zackary Drucker (American transgender multimedia artist, LGBT activist, actress and producer of smash Amazon series Transparent) and Erin O'Toole (associate curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)"--Publisher's description.

Publication/Creation

[London] : MACK, [2019]

Physical description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 29 cm

Notes

"This book accompanies the exhibition held at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, United States, 6 July- 1 December 2019."

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical reference.

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TW.AL
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1912339439
  • 9781912339433