![]() ![]() ![]() Against colorful backdrops, the disembodied hands and legs are striking and strange, compelling in their own right. The result is a radical remaking of classic works that often exposes male photographers’ continuous fetishization of women’s bodies-Alfred Stieglitz’s obsession with Georgia O’Keeffe’s hands, or Lee Friedlander’s fixation on nudes. Paying homage to feminist collages and Valerie Solanas’s SCUM (Society for Cutting up Men) Manifesto, she dismembers and reconfigures photographs by the straight white men who have dominated the photography industry for decades. In her new book, SCUMB Manifesto, the photographer Justine Kurland takes scissors to her personal collection of 150 photo books. Think of the view of the Valley of Κ we saw when we came through the Tunnel of I. Think of the happiest times you can remember. ![]() “Just do one thing for me,” Haroun called to his father. Courtesy of Higher Pictures Generation.Īfter hearing the horrifying news about the attack on Salman Rushdie earlier today, I turned to the first book of his I’d read-or rather, the book he read, on audiocassette, to my family on long car journeys. ![]()
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