The acquisitions, part of a three-year project to increase representation of women, include the gallery’s first-ever self-portrait by a Black woman.
Self-portraiture
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Self-Portrait as Future
When looking at images from the golden age of Sudanese photography, I was reminded to listen as much as look.
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Lucian Freud’s Shadow Self
As a displaced refugee, Freud knew he would always be something of a stranger to himself, but how much would he ever wish to know of himself?
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Seeing Consent Through the Lens of Body Language
Photographer Tommy Kha’s Return to Sender exhibition at LMAK Gallery frames him as his own subject — a listless participant in a series of intimate encounters.
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Dismantling Beauty Through Extreme Self-Portraiture
Artist Mari Katayama uses objects both to reference her body and to submerge the viewer in a world where the expected limits of the bodily form are reimagined.
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Edvard Munch’s Little-Known, Highly Personal Photography
Munch’s photographs exhibit an unfinished playfulness with technical manipulation and subject matter that is not as readily seen in his more well-known work.