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The result is a self-harming self-portrait, an effigy that has been prevented, inhibited, forced into silence. Annegret Soltau writes her story as a woman on the blank page of her face; it is a history of conflict, impulsive reactions to the family environment, to the marginal position of women in the social context, to gender pressures and ...
A 2017 exhibition of her self portraits depicting the effects of her struggle with anorexia, gained significant attention in Norway. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In interviews, and in a TED talk, she described her struggle between creativity and suffering from poor physical health.
Sally Mann (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) [1] is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as self-portraits.
In 2017, she collaborated on a "selfie" project with W Magazine that was based on the concept of the "plandid", or "the planned candid photograph". Sherman utilized a variety of photo-correction apps to create her Instagram portraits. [52] From 2019 she showed self-portraits executed as tapestries by a Belgian workshop. [53] [54]
Petra Cortright was born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California. [1] Cortright is the daughter of two artists; her father who died when she was four, [2] Steven Cortright, was a sculptor/printmaker and art professor at UC Santa Barbara, and her mother is a painter. [3]
Nevertheless, taking into account the fact that the female self-portrait appeared more than a century after the male self-portrait, and that for a long time there were fewer female artists, it would seem quite reasonable to place the proportion at a maximum of 15-20%.
Informed by documentary practices from the turn of the last century, Frazier explores identities of place, race, and family in work that is a hybrid of self-portraiture and social narrative. Her primary subjects of these portraits are Frazier's Grandma Ruby (1925–2009), her mother (b. 1959), and the artist herself. [31]
Woodman took her first self-portrait at age thirteen and continued photographing herself until she died. [10] She attended public school in Boulder, Colorado , between 1963 and 1971, except for second grade, which she attended in Italy, where the family spent many summers between school years.