Valie Export: Photography

Valie Export's photography is showcased in a new book that explores her career as an early radical feminist artist. The volume includes rare and unseen photographs that critically examine visual images and mass media, spanning decades of conceptual photographs. It is accompanied by the first exhibition to highlight Export's photographs, produced in close collaboration with the artist.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2023
Publisher: Prestel

Valie Export's photography takes center stage in this groundbreaking exploration, offering new insights into the career of an early radical feminist artist. Through a combination of her celebrated performance pieces and independent projects, Export challenges conventional representations of the female body in film and media. Her controversial works, such as Touch and Tap Cinema and Action Pants: Genital Panic, were among the first to reexamine the ways in which the female body is depicted. This volume explores how Export's photography contributes to these projects, serving as documentation, experimentation, or independent works. Spanning decades from the late 1960s, her conceptual photographs critically examine visual images and the functioning of mass media. Rarely seen publicly, these photographs provide unique insights into Export's oeuvre. Situated at the intersection of film, video, and body art, they are causally linked to socially critical and feminist issues surrounding subject and space, performance and visual image, body and gaze, and femininity and representation. The volume traces Export's photographic work as parallel to her early performance pieces and later in her career, as she investigates various aspects of the photographic image, from one-point perspective to cropping, and the temporal implications of static individual images. Accompanying the first exhibition dedicated to showcasing Export's photographs, this stunning volume was produced in close collaboration with the artist, reflecting her exacting standards and vision.

Weight: 1128g
Dimension: 286 x 234 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783791379623