Body Language (eBook)

The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa

Angela Miller (Autor)

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2023
168 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39463-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Examines early practices of staged photography in visualizing queer forms of relation.
 
Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. Using the camera not to capture, but to actively perform, they renounced photography’s conventional role as mirror of the real, energizing forms of world-making via a new social framing of the self.

Inhalt

Introduction 
Anthony W. Lee, Nick Mauss, and Angela Miller

The Uses of Photographs 
Nick Mauss

PaJaMa Drama
Angela Miller

Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Defining Moments in Photography
• Reihe/Serie: Defining Moments in Photography
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: 1930s and 1940s New York cultural landscape • 20th century • America • Art History • Contemporary • early twentieth century queer culture • Fire Island • history of queer life • Illustrated • modernism • Modernist Movement • Performance • photographic • photographic collaborations • radical artistic practices • Reproduction • Staging • transatlantic avant-garde • world making
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39463-1 / 0520394631
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39463-6 / 9780520394636