Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa
Examines early practices of staged photography in visualizing queer forms of relation.
 
Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. Using the camera not to capture, but to actively perform, they renounced photography’s conventional role as mirror of the real, energizing forms of world-making via a new social framing of the self.
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Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa
Examines early practices of staged photography in visualizing queer forms of relation.
 
Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. Using the camera not to capture, but to actively perform, they renounced photography’s conventional role as mirror of the real, energizing forms of world-making via a new social framing of the self.
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Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa

Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa

Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa
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Overview

Examines early practices of staged photography in visualizing queer forms of relation.
 
Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. Using the camera not to capture, but to actively perform, they renounced photography’s conventional role as mirror of the real, energizing forms of world-making via a new social framing of the self.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520394629
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/07/2023
Series: Defining Moments in Photography , #7
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 168
Sales rank: 656,334
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nick Mauss is an artist whose recent exhibitions include Transmissions at the Whitney Museum and Intricate Others at Museu Serralves.
 
Angela Miller has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American arts and culture. She is author of the prize-winning The Empire of the Eye.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction 
Anthony W. Lee, Nick Mauss, and Angela Miller

The Uses of Photographs 
Nick Mauss

PaJaMa Drama
Angela Miller

Notes
Index
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