Author: O'TOOLE, Erin, Hilton ALS & Zackary DRUCKER [Eds.]
Title: April Dawn Alison.
Description: MACK, 2019. 28.5 x 23 cm. 220 pp. Hardcover. Illustrated in b/w and colour throughout. - The Hidden Identity in April Dawn Alison's Self-Portraits - By becoming a woman for the camera, the artist exposed his soul to himself like nothing else on earth could do. - [Hilton Als, The New Yorker] - Made over the course of some thirty years, the photographs in this book depict the many faces of April Dawn Alison, the female persona of an Oakland, California based photographer who lived in the world as a man. This previously unseen body of self-portraits, which was given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2017, begins tentatively in 1970s in b/w, and evolves in the 80s into an exuberant, wildly colourful, and obsessive practice inspired by representations of women in classic film, BDSM pornography and advertising. A singular, long-term exploration of a non-public self, the archive contains photographs that are beautiful, hilarious, enigmatic, and heartbreakingly sad, sometimes all at once. - Tiny spot bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy

Keywords: 9781912339433


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