FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
FOUNDATIONS
Daguerreotype (Becquerel method), 3.25”x4”, 2014, unique.
Daguerreotype (Becquerel method), 3.25”x4”, 2014, unique.
Daguerreotype (Becquerel method), 3.25”x4”, 2014, unique.
“Foundations” installed at my solo show “Progressions” at the Vermont Center for Photography, in Brattleboro in 2019.. Installation photographed by Joshua Farr.
“Foundations” installed in “Singular Repetitions” at the University Galleries at UMASS Dartmouth, 2017.
“Foundations” installation as part of my solo show “Private Lives, Public Spaces” at the Danforth Art Museum in 2015. Photo courtesy of Danforth Art.
Foundations is an ongoing series cataloguing nineteenth-century corset styles, using the daguerreotype, the first photographic process. Clothing has been used to shape, lift, smooth and control women’s bodies throughout time—whether with Victorian corsets, 1950’s girdles, punk bustiers, or contemporary Spanx. Foundations focuses on this hardware by photographing historically-accurate corsets without sexualizing the wearer.
This project would not be possible without the handmade corsets created by Kristen Demanett.