CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/11/2013

Malerie Marder: Carnal Knowledge Featured in Daily Beast

In today's Daily Beast, Lisa Larson-Walker and Melissa Leon select "Incredible Photos from 11 Women Artists", including this one by Malerie Marder. They write, "Though Malerie Marder frequently appears within her own work, this photograph (taken in 2007 and called “Past Present,” included in a 2011 monograph titled Carnal Knowledge, published by Violette Editions) is a portrait of an actress recreating the severe bruising Marder suffered after a fall. 'I used to have anxiety about my pictures exposing things too private,' Marder wrote in an email conversation with Philip-Lorca diCorcia. 'But the real intimacies are censored out. I still get pangs of self-consciousness, but it’s too late for regret.' Ambiguity, fate, eroticism, nostalgia, awkwardness, narcissism, transiency: these are just some of the emotions Marder felt as she took the photos in Carnal Knowledge.