the German image in photographs from a variety of scenarios in the post-war period
Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of conventional documentary
icons and signs from which the author and protagonist constructs a narrative interspersed with the words of historic and contemporary women
Berlin 2013 / Galerie im Taxispalais
the darkroom is founded on a fundamental belief in photography as a universal and therapeutic language
April Dawn Alison British the German image in photographsMade 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 colourful, and obsessive