The hundred headless woman = La femme 100 têtes / Angela Grauerholz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grauerholz, Angela, photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grauerholz, Angela.

Portrait photography.

Women--Portraits.

Women.

Photography, Artistic.

art photography.

Genre:

photobooks.

Photobooks.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Femme 100 têtes

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Steidl, 2025.

Summary:

"La femme 100 têtes / The Hundred Headless Woman presents over 150 portraits of 100 women--some acquaintances, some strangers--taken by Angela Grauerholz over a 30-year period and presented for the first time in this book. Collaging diverse photos made with various cameras and technologies with text fragments from a range of mostly female authors, Grauerholz creates a hybrid between a magazine and book that forms a complex portrait of women." -- Publisher's website (viewed September 8, 2025)

Notes:

Chiefly illustrated.

Includes bibliographical references.

"The title La femme 100 têtes is borrowed from Max Ernst's 1929 Surrealist collage novel of the same name, in which he combined cut-up and reassembled nineteenth-century illustrations with bizarre captions. Grauerholz welcomes the double entendre of Ernst's title--when read aloud in French it means both "the hundred-headed woman" and "the headless woman"--to create a sense of womanhood intricately individual and violently anonymous. The intentionally quotidian nature of Grauerholz's photos blurs the "class" distinctions between images in an art context, in a printed publication and on the Internet, and tests the changing ways we encounter and judge photography." -- Publisher's website (viewed September 8, 2025)

ISBN:

9783958295605

3958295606

OCLC:

1529013351

Publisher Number:

9783958295605