A Due Voci: The Photography of Rita HammondRita Hammond, Julie Grossman, Ann M. Ryan, Kim Waale A famed ??? garde photographer daringly assesses her own place in art and photography. A photographer and art historian of provocative sensibilities. Rita Hammond completed A Due Voci immediately before her death in 1999. In this ground-breaking series of reflections on the history of art and photography. Hammond places herself squarely in the camera's eye and then completes the action by daringly entering the frame. Using inventive masks and costumes, the artist embarks upon a bold pictorial masquerade. In so doing she recasts celebrated works of art focusing specifically on those of symbolic force. She is the hauntingly voluptuous Marilyn Monroe. She is Nijinsky's fiery Petrouchka. She is the dream of Picasso's Harlequin, and the face staring back, shocked, in Escher's mirror. She is Anne Frank and silent screen vamp Louise Brooks. She is German expressionist Max Beckmann and, always, Rita Hammond. Hammond's fame in gender-bending reached its zenith with After Mapplethorpe, a sensational androgynous duo of Hammond-as-male-and-female photos inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe's work. In A Due Voci, Hammond boldly continues to dispute--and often dismantle--standard gender identity. It is a volume that will prove indispensable for students and professionals of visual culture and gender series. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
After A Due Voci | 15 |
Kim Waale Christian A Peterson Michael Davis Phillip Novak | 21 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A Due Voci: The Photography of Rita Hammond |
| Editors | Rita Hammond, Julie Grossman, Ann M. Ryan, Kim Waale |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 17, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0815607512, 9780815607519 |
| Length | 143 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers Biography & Autobiography / Historical Biography & Autobiography / Women Photography / Individual Photographers / General |
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