A facsimile edition of Marcia Resnick's 1978 artist's book depicting adolescent girlhood in staged photographs
When the celebrated New York photographer Marcia Resnick (born 1950) was involved in a car crash in 1975, she saw her whole life flash before her eyes. Inspired by this procession of memories, Resnick decided to revisit her childhood memories in a series of staged photographs that she would eventually publish as the artist's book Re-visions in 1978.
Accompanied by texts, these black-and-white photographs convey a surreal and often darkly humorous depiction of the trials and tribulations of girlhood: in one image, a girl kisses a Howdy Doody doll above the text "She secretly lusted for her television idols;" in another, the phrase "They were continually telling her that she had stars in her eyes" accompanies a photograph of two jacks resting on a girl's closed eyelids.
This is the first facsimile edition of what has become a classic of 1970s artist's book publishing.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Marcia Resnick: Re-Visions.'
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Timothy Archibald
Resnick's images all have the confessional feeling of self portraiture... They are conceptual, they are literary fictions, all done with a style of make-shift / thrift store theatricality that just seems inventive and charming.
Chelsea Community News
Scott Stiffler
Re-visions dares to be perverse in this age of rules and enforced correctness...[Resnick's] thoughts reveal the restlessness of budding adolescence and the curiosity and lustfulness that, especially in that era, were reserved for boys.
British Journal of Photography
Marigold Warner
Resnick began to revisualise her memories, combining text and image to augment the irony and humor of the experience of growing up as a woman.
Lenscratch
Aline Smithson
Resnick’s photographic portraits explore fame, sexuality and individual style.
Collector Daily
Olga Yatskevich
Re-Visions is an important photobook by a woman photographer that deserves to be more consistently included with other feminist photography classics from the 1970s.
AnOther
Belle Hutton
Re-visions, comprises staged photographs of a female adolescence, and falls somewhere between fiction and reality.
Lensculture
Olga Yatskevich
[A] historically significant and groundbreaking photobook by a woman.
Saturday, November 16 from 4–8 PM, Deborah Bell Photographs presents Marcia Resnick signing Re-visions, the new Edition Patrick Frey facsimile edition of her 1978 artist's book depicting adolescent girlhood in staged photographs. The corresponding exhibition will be on view at the gallery through February 1, 2020. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 11 x 8.5 in. / 104 pgs / 48 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $69.95 ISBN: 9783906803937 PUBLISHER: Edition Patrick Frey AVAILABLE: 10/29/2019 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA AFR ME
A facsimile edition of Marcia Resnick's 1978 artist's book depicting adolescent girlhood in staged photographs
When the celebrated New York photographer Marcia Resnick (born 1950) was involved in a car crash in 1975, she saw her whole life flash before her eyes. Inspired by this procession of memories, Resnick decided to revisit her childhood memories in a series of staged photographs that she would eventually publish as the artist's book Re-visions in 1978.
Accompanied by texts, these black-and-white photographs convey a surreal and often darkly humorous depiction of the trials and tribulations of girlhood: in one image, a girl kisses a Howdy Doody doll above the text "She secretly lusted for her television idols;" in another, the phrase "They were continually telling her that she had stars in her eyes" accompanies a photograph of two jacks resting on a girl's closed eyelids.
This is the first facsimile edition of what has become a classic of 1970s artist's book publishing.
