Decisions, decisions...
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pantryslutTwo event announcements for Thursday, September 25:
1) 7pm, 301 Gallery @ The Center, 1800 Mission St.
Book release party and gallery exhibition for
Familiar Men: A Book Of Nudes
by Laurie Toby Edison
The publication of Laurie Toby Edison's book Familiar Men will be
celebrated with the first complete exhibition of her nude male portraits in the United States. The Harvey Milk Institute is sponsoring the exhibition at The 301 Gallery at The Center from September 18th to October 31st, 2003 (1800 Market Street, San Francisco). The Artist's Reception and Book Release Party is
on Thursday, September 25th, at 7 p.m.
In Laurie Toby Edison's style of inclusive photography, the models are collaborators with the photographer, working to create a relaxed, comfortable portrait. Nowhere is this unique approach to portrait photography more transgressive, or more powerful, than in the photographer's body of nude portraits of men.
Opportunities to see non-eroticized nude portraits of men are disturbingly rare. This exhibition goes far beyond the extremely narrow slice of male nudity and semi-nudity available in popular culture. By revealing men as they are - old and young, fat and thin, varied in race, class and ethnicity - Edison provides a new kind of permission for all men to accept themselves.
2) 7:30pm, Books Inc. in the Castro, 2275 Market St.
Book Release Party for Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb
Final Girl -- the last girl left alive in the classic horror flick -- traces the history of the other and the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In Final Girl, Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell the story: what was done to others, what was done to her, what might yet be done to her.
In poems... Gottlieb identifies and articulates the personal and social desires, fears and traumas out of which pop culture is made... and then she feeds pop culture back to itself.
Though the slasher flick is central, Gottlieb finds resonances in sources as disparate as the early American captivity narrative, queer and feminist film theory, and her own mother's death. Through such iconic American figures such as Mary Rowlandson and Patricia Hearst, Gottlieb delineates the ways in which we're betrayed by our cultural fantasies about abduction, gender, literature, pleasure and transgression Ñ and, in so doing, synthesizes the death and life of the American female.
Daphne is about to go on tour for two months to support her book; this is her San Francisco send-off!
(So, yes, I will be trying to be in two places at once on Thursday.)
1) 7pm, 301 Gallery @ The Center, 1800 Mission St.
Book release party and gallery exhibition for
Familiar Men: A Book Of Nudes
by Laurie Toby Edison
The publication of Laurie Toby Edison's book Familiar Men will be
celebrated with the first complete exhibition of her nude male portraits in the United States. The Harvey Milk Institute is sponsoring the exhibition at The 301 Gallery at The Center from September 18th to October 31st, 2003 (1800 Market Street, San Francisco). The Artist's Reception and Book Release Party is
on Thursday, September 25th, at 7 p.m.
In Laurie Toby Edison's style of inclusive photography, the models are collaborators with the photographer, working to create a relaxed, comfortable portrait. Nowhere is this unique approach to portrait photography more transgressive, or more powerful, than in the photographer's body of nude portraits of men.
Opportunities to see non-eroticized nude portraits of men are disturbingly rare. This exhibition goes far beyond the extremely narrow slice of male nudity and semi-nudity available in popular culture. By revealing men as they are - old and young, fat and thin, varied in race, class and ethnicity - Edison provides a new kind of permission for all men to accept themselves.
2) 7:30pm, Books Inc. in the Castro, 2275 Market St.
Book Release Party for Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb
Final Girl -- the last girl left alive in the classic horror flick -- traces the history of the other and the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In Final Girl, Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell the story: what was done to others, what was done to her, what might yet be done to her.
In poems... Gottlieb identifies and articulates the personal and social desires, fears and traumas out of which pop culture is made... and then she feeds pop culture back to itself.
Though the slasher flick is central, Gottlieb finds resonances in sources as disparate as the early American captivity narrative, queer and feminist film theory, and her own mother's death. Through such iconic American figures such as Mary Rowlandson and Patricia Hearst, Gottlieb delineates the ways in which we're betrayed by our cultural fantasies about abduction, gender, literature, pleasure and transgression Ñ and, in so doing, synthesizes the death and life of the American female.
Daphne is about to go on tour for two months to support her book; this is her San Francisco send-off!
(So, yes, I will be trying to be in two places at once on Thursday.)
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Date: 2003-09-22 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-22 08:03 pm (UTC)Seriously, I would think you could put in an appearance at each one. You know we'd love to see you (and the show is gorgeous)!
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Date: 2003-09-22 08:51 pm (UTC)