Christer StrömholmPlace Blanche, 1960’sGelatin-silver print, 34,9 x 44,7 cmCollection Fotomuseum Win
Christer StrömholmPlace Blanche, 1960’sGelatin-silver print, 34,9 x 44,7 cmCollection Fotomuseum Winterthur© Christer Strömholm Estate 06.09.2008 - 16.11.2008DARKSIDEPhotographic Desire and Sexuality PhotographedFor sexuality and fantasy, photography is a central visual instrument: as document, stimulation, instrument of power, and as a form for artistic creation. Photography shows and stylizes pleasure and passion, voyeurism and self-representation, sexual power and consumption. Fantasies and desires form an exciting pact with photography: sexual fantasies demand representation, actively seek disclosure—and photography uses this power of (pictorial) eroticism for its own ends, to be powerful and seductive. Darkside is dedicated to photographs of ideal, natural, and grotesque bodies; conceives of sexuality as a part of existence; presents photographed sexual practices, desires, and phantasms; discusses sexuality in Surrealism; reflects on reification and fetishization in sexuality; compares voyeurism and exhibitionism with one another; takes up the topics of sexuality and the body within the context of debates around gender, as well as power and the market. Throughout it is always a question of the images we make of “sexuality,” of the endless interflow of fantasies and reality in visual desire over the last one hundred years. DARKSIDE via sex and blogs -- source link