Primary research from The Photographer’s Gallery.

Feminist Avant – Grade of The 1970s

‘The Seductive Body’

‘Domestic Agenda’

‘In My Skin’

‘Alter Ego’

Ketty La Rocca, My words and you? 1971/1972 Vienna

If you see the picture very closely, it is not difficult to see there are many ‘you’ on hand in different sizes

Ewa Partum, Change, 1974

Rita Myers, Body Halves, 1971

Francesca Woodman

Karin Mack, Destruction of an illusion, 1997

Margot Pilz, Untitled aus 4th Dimension, 1978

ALTER EGO:

MASQUERADE, PARODY & SELF – REPRESENTATION

In Martha Wilson’s work Portfolio of Models (1974) female archetypes are variously posed as Goddess, Housewife, Working Girl, Earth Mother and Lesbian.

Whitechapel Gallery

Terrains of the body

The artist in this display aim their cameras at the female body to express identity, communicate individual and collective experiences and give life to the imagination.

Judy Chicago, Red Flag, 1971

Renate Eisenegger, Isolation, 1972

Hellen Van Meene, Untitled 2000/1999/2002/2000