Untitled Men — Carolyn Drake. Published by TBW Books.
To tackle the misogyny embedded within the history of photography: not for the faint of heart. Carolyn Drake does exactly that in this delightful book, channeling her own anger and frustration while invoking desire, distaste, disfunction, dysphoria. She looks to subvert histories of photographic power—as well as the relationship to gender and identity of both the artist and the subjects—in photographic portraits (mostly) that range cheerfully from the prosaic to the absurd.
Meggan Gould is an artist living and working outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies, and Speos (Paris Photographic Institute), where she finally began her studies in photography. She received an MFA in photography from the University of Massachusetts — Dartmouth. She recently wrote a book, Sorry, No Pictures, about her own relationship to photography.
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