#beaton

[detournementsmineurs]

"Lee Miller et Marion Morehouse Cummings, New York" par Cecil Beaton (circa 1928) à l'exposition “Lee Miller” au Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM), juin 2026.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose

Gender Performance in Photography 

Jennifer Blessing

with contributions by Judith Halberstam, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nancy Spector, Carole-Anne Tyler, Sarah Wilson

Guggenheim Museum Publ., New York 1997, 224 pages, softcover, 27,30x33,65cm, ISBN 0-89207-185-0

euro 120,00

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Exhibition New York January 17- April 27, 1997

This important volume, whose title combines Gertrude Stein’s famous motto, “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” with the name of Marcel Duchamp’s feminine alter ego, Rrose Selavy, features portraits, self-portraits and photomontages in which the gender of the subject is highlighted through performance for the camera or through technical manipulation of the image. In many of the works, photography’s strong aura of realism and objectivity promotes a fantasy of total gender transformation. In other pieces, the photographic representation articulates an incongruity between the posing body and its assumed costume. Features work by Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hàch, Man Ray, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Inez van Lamsweerde and Andy Warhol.

02/05/24

[mote-historie]

Marlene Dietrich wearing an Elsa Schiaparelli ensamble from the fall/winter 1936-1937 collection, British Vogue, photo by Cecil Beaton, October 1936.

[fuckyername]

cecil beaton self portraits

[thejazzera]

Beaton, Vogue cover, 1935

[artdecoandmodernist]

1934 Sir Cecil Beaton, Portrait of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. Watercolour and pencil, 61 x 45.5 cm. 

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Beaton

[quotesfromall]

I am wary of the sensationalization of my narrative because it contains sexual violence. The sad fact is, however, that sexual assault of every kind is far too common everywhere to be sensational. That doesn't mean I am not deeply and negatively affected by it. I will always be affected by it. But I guarantee you that neither of the men who raped me consider what they did to be rape, if they consider it at all. I know the name of one of them; he is a father now with a woman who was his girlfriend when he raped me. I was nothing in his life but a short release from the boredom and loneliness endemic in camp life, but he was a major trauma in mine. I have seen many people quick to become defensive against the suggestion that gendered violence exists in places like the oil sands. They may either work there and are proud of the work they do and the livelihoods they support with it, or they know and love men there, and are insulted by the insinuation of being lumped in with anything to do with something as abhorrent as sexual assault.

Kate Beaton, Ducks