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April Dawn Alison

Title
April Dawn Alison / Erin O'Toole, Hilton Als, Zackary Drucker.
Author
Schaefer, Alan, 1941-2008
Publication
  • [London] : MACK, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • O'Toole, Erin, 1971-
  • Als, Hilton
  • Drucker, Zackary
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 29 cm
Summary
"Made over the course of some thirty years, the photographs in this book depict the many faces of April Dawn Alison, the female persona of an Oakland, California based photographer who lived in the world as a man. This previously unseen body of self-portraits, which was given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2017, begins tentatively in 1970s in black-and-white, and evolves in the 80s into an exuberant, wildly colorful, and obsessive practice inspired by representations of women in classic film, BDSM pornography and advertising. A singular, long-term exploration of a non-public self, the archive contains photographs that are beautiful, hilarious, enigmatic, and heartbreakingly sad, sometimes all at once. With essays by Hilton Als (American writer and theater critic for The New Yorker), Zackary Drucker (American transgender multimedia artist, LGBT activist, actress and producer of smash Amazon series Transparent) and Erin O'Toole (associate curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)"--Publisher's description.
Uniform Title
Photographs. Selections
Alternative Title
Photographs.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Portrait.
  • Exhibition
  • portraits.
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • group portraits.
  • Self-portraits
  • Portraits
  • Pictorial works
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
  • Portraits.
  • Self-portraits.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
  • Portraits de groupe.
Note
  • Exhibition held at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 6-December 1, 2019.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical reference.
ISBN
  • 1912339439
  • 9781912339433
LCCN
2019458529
OCLC
  • on1085618173
  • 1085618173
  • SCSB-9654662
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library