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.
- ISBN10 0520394615
- ISBN13 9780520394612
- Publish Date 7 November 2023
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 May 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 168
- Language English