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Rosy Martin - 'Out Takes': Number 3
Professionally printed on 10x12 Arches 88 fine art matte paper, 100% cotton-rag.
'Out Takes' continues my explorations of gender as performance and my investigations into the family album. I remember being struck by how often I had seen within the faded fragments from the past representations of something familiar. Desire, supported by the collusion of hairdressers, clothes designers and high street photographers, positioned a generation in the 1930's and 40's by their similarity to their chosen film star idols. Seductive, yet always tinged with a hint of failure, of pathos.
Using self-portraiture, I perform a variety of gender styles to destabilise any notion of truth or falsity, to render genders thoroughly and radically incredible. Queering the family album
Rosy Martin (born 1946) is an artist-photographer, psychological-therapist, workshop leader, lecturer and writer. She explores the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes using performative self-portraiture, still life photography and video. From 1983, with Jo Spence, she pioneered re-enactment phototherapy, which explores the psychic and social construction of identities through embodiment. She has exhibited internationally and published widely since 1985. Her practice explores issues including gender, sexualities, ageing, class, desire, memory, location, family dynamics, shame, bereavement, loss, grief and reparation.
“I have used Photofusion for many years and always found them to be helpful and supportive. I have been a friend of those innovators who set it all up, many moons ago and continue to admire all that Photofusion does.” -Rosy Martin
Print is unsigned. Your purchase will contain a letter of authenticity from Photofusion noting Title of Print, Photographer and signed by Photofusion's Director. Due to all printing being completed expertly in-house, please allow a period of up to 28 days for your order to be shipped.
Professionally printed on 10x12 Arches 88 fine art matte paper, 100% cotton-rag.
'Out Takes' continues my explorations of gender as performance and my investigations into the family album. I remember being struck by how often I had seen within the faded fragments from the past representations of something familiar. Desire, supported by the collusion of hairdressers, clothes designers and high street photographers, positioned a generation in the 1930's and 40's by their similarity to their chosen film star idols. Seductive, yet always tinged with a hint of failure, of pathos.
Using self-portraiture, I perform a variety of gender styles to destabilise any notion of truth or falsity, to render genders thoroughly and radically incredible. Queering the family album
Rosy Martin (born 1946) is an artist-photographer, psychological-therapist, workshop leader, lecturer and writer. She explores the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes using performative self-portraiture, still life photography and video. From 1983, with Jo Spence, she pioneered re-enactment phototherapy, which explores the psychic and social construction of identities through embodiment. She has exhibited internationally and published widely since 1985. Her practice explores issues including gender, sexualities, ageing, class, desire, memory, location, family dynamics, shame, bereavement, loss, grief and reparation.
“I have used Photofusion for many years and always found them to be helpful and supportive. I have been a friend of those innovators who set it all up, many moons ago and continue to admire all that Photofusion does.” -Rosy Martin
Print is unsigned. Your purchase will contain a letter of authenticity from Photofusion noting Title of Print, Photographer and signed by Photofusion's Director. Due to all printing being completed expertly in-house, please allow a period of up to 28 days for your order to be shipped.