Ken. to Be Destroyed
This project began with an archive and a discovery. Sara Davidmann and her siblings inherited letters and photographs belonging to her uncle and aunt, Ken and Hazel Houston. In the context of a British marriage in the 1950s, this inevitably profoundly affected both their relationship and their relationships with the people around them. Publicly Ken was a man, but in the privacy of the home he was a woman. They remained together from 1954 to the end of Ken's life. In response to the letters and family photographs Sara Davidmann has produced a new set of photographs using analogue, alternative and digital processes. From the raw material of the…
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Weitere Autoren: Williams, Val (Ausw.)
- ISBN: 978-90-5330-861-5
- EAN: 9789053308615
- Produktnummer: 18873036
- Verlag: Schilt Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Masse: H32.3 cm x B25.0 cm x D2.2 cm 1'172 g
- Gewicht: 1172
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For fifteen years Sara Davidmann has taken photographs and recorded oral histories in collaboration with people from UK transgender and queer communities. Her work has been internationally exhibited and published. Ken. To be destroyed has been exhibited at Museum of Liverpool (2014), Limewharf Gallery (2014), PARCspace, Photography and the Archive Research Centre, UAL (2014) and at Unity Theatre for Homotopia's 10th Anniversary Arts Festival Liverpool (2013). Her first book Crossing the Line was published by Dewi Lewis in 2003.Val Williams is a writer, curator, professor and Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) at London College of Communication, UAL. Val is the editor of Ken. To be destroyed, working in collaboration with Sara Davidmann. She became involved in the project in 2013 and, with Robin Christian, has curated the touring exhibition, which opened at PARCspace, London College of Communication in 2014.
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