PUBLISHER University Art Museum, University at Albany
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 104 pgs / 57 color / 9 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/31/2013 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 96
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780910763448TRADE List Price: $29.95 CDN $35.00
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Dana Hoey photographs what it means to be female using staged and constructed photography
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
Dana Hoey: The Phantom Sex
Introduction by Corinna Ripps Schaming. Text by Johanna Burton.
For more than 20 years, the photographer Dana Hoey (born 1966) has explored what it means to be female. Using both staged and directed photography, her meticulously constructed pictures often combine the sunny daylight and saturated color of commercial, digitally enhanced film stock with the iconography and framing of religious painting. Her early work claims influences as diverse as Bernini’s “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” and Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and reveals a fascination with corrupted idealism and the power of heedless actions. More recently, Hoey has explored scenarios in which older women play central roles and typically female activities take on elevated status. In her latest pictures, resin casts of her own and friends’ bodies, found sculptures and plastic tarps serve as stand-ins for human subjects. The Phantom Sex is the first comprehensive overview of this prominent female photographer in more than ten years.
FORMAT: Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 104 pgs / 57 color / 9 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $29.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $35 ISBN: 9780910763448 PUBLISHER: University Art Museum, University at Albany AVAILABLE: 3/31/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: *not available
Published by University Art Museum, University at Albany. Introduction by Corinna Ripps Schaming. Text by Johanna Burton.
For more than 20 years, the photographer Dana Hoey (born 1966) has explored what it means to be female. Using both staged and directed photography, her meticulously constructed pictures often combine the sunny daylight and saturated color of commercial, digitally enhanced film stock with the iconography and framing of religious painting. Her early work claims influences as diverse as Bernini’s “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” and Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and reveals a fascination with corrupted idealism and the power of heedless actions. More recently, Hoey has explored scenarios in which older women play central roles and typically female activities take on elevated status. In her latest pictures, resin casts of her own and friends’ bodies, found sculptures and plastic tarps serve as stand-ins for human subjects. The Phantom Sex is the first comprehensive overview of this prominent female photographer in more than ten years.
