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Claude Cahun<\/h5>\n

“Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”<\/p>\n

b. 1914, France. Surrealist performative self portraits.
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Lucas Samaras – Photo Transformations – Polaroid manipulation<\/h5>\n

Polaroid series produced between 1973 and 1976 with an SX-70 camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Samaras\u2019s \u201cphoto-transformations\u201d are the result of chemical manipulations the artist made to Polaroid images as they were developing. He scratches, rubs, and scrapes the delicate surface of the print, introducing an aesthetic of controlled agitation that shifts the register of the picture from purely photographic to something more like drawing, etching, or even painting.”<\/p>\n

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\nBrooklyn Rail<\/a><\/p>\n

Jo Spence – Only when I got to fifty did I realize I was Cinderella<\/h5>\n

B. 15th June 1934, London, D. 24 June 1992, London: British photographer, a writer, cultural worker, and a photo therapist.<\/p>\n

“Following a diagnosis with breast cancer much of Spence\u2019s subsequent work was a response to her treatment by the medical establishment and her attempt to navigate its authority through alternative therapies.<\/p>\n

In 1984, alongside Rosy Martin, Spence developed \u2018Photo-Therapy\u2019, adopting techniques from co-counselling to invert the traditional relationship between the photographer and the subject. If historically the subject had little control over their own representation, Photo-Therapy shifts this dynamic enabling them to act out personal narratives and claim agency for their own biography.”<\/p>\n

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Bruce Nauman’s Walking in an Exaggerated Manner (1968)<\/h5>\n

B. December 6, 1941, USA<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product.\u201d<\/p>\n