Mw Editions - Lydia Panas: Sleeping Beauty - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Portraits of women and girls intertwined with the photographer's gaze in a rare subversion of photography's power relations This volume presents award - winning Pennsylvania - based photographer Lydia Panas (born 1958) much - praised series of mesmerizing color portraits of reclining women and girls. In an interesting reversal of roles the artist's and models gazes are intertwined incorporating the viewer as participant in an often uncomfortable connection. Critics and curators have praised the work for Panas artistic and technical mastery and all have noted and examined the powerfully affecting gaze of her subjects. Panas notes: While my subjects do in actuality turn their gaze towards me it's as if at times I turn the camera onto myself both in the present and back in time. In Sleeping Beauty her subjects lie down a metaphor for the position girls and women have been placed in historically. But they look out with self - awareness in a way that implies a lack of complicity.
Title: Lydia Panas: Sleeping Beauty
Brand: Mw Editions
Barcode: 9781735762920
Pages: 112 Pages, 65 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 12/7/2021
Category: Photographs: Portraits