Week 5: Mona and Me

Please see Erica for copies of the readings if you need (I had to delete them off our website memory). 

All articles are also available in print in Library Reserves.


 


Editor's Statement: Portraits: The Limitations of Likeness, Richard Brilliant

Post-Modern Portraits, Wendy Steiner

Francesca Woodman's Photography, Phelan

Performance/Photography, Larry Qualls

Self Image: Personal is Political, Angela Kelly

Photobooths

Lee Godie: French Impressionism From A Bag, this file is the complete exhibition catalog. There is a lot of images with some text. I would look over the images online and print the text sections if you want to reduce paper printing.

"Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty," and "Nothing Like the Son: On Robert Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio," Dave Hickey, from The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty.

 

(Image Set) Artists' Self-Portraits: http://www.scholarsresource.com/browse/image_set/749

 

For further reading:

Doubletake: The Diary of a Relationship with an Image, Lucy R. Lippard

The Art of the Portrait According to James, Moshe Ron

David Nebreda and the Photographic Paradox, Lindsay Page

Images of David Nebreda: http://www.solromo.com/art_foto/nebreda

The Body Eclectic: Viewing Bodily Modification in David Nebreda, David Houston Jones, from Reconstruction 5.1 (Winter 2005) http://reconstruction.eserver.org/051/jones.shtml

Annie Leibovitz: New York Times

Read Susan Sontag essay, interview, and photographs:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/photos/leibovitz/contact-sheet.html