WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL // Jocelyn Lee
Summary:
My project Women are beautiful is a selection of images taken from over 10 years of work on women and girls. I photograph women that I know, and women I don’t know, in intimate settings like the bedroom. Mostly the women are naked or minimally clothed in lingerie, bathing suits, or nightgowns. I am interested in affirming all body types and ages, as well as alluding to the complex internal lives of women. I want to expand the notion of the beautiful to include the more vulnerable stages of life, including adolescence, pregnancy, middle age, sexuality (complete with sagging skin and scars), old age and illness. I am interested in embracing what others may see as physical imperfection or vulnerability, and documenting it with the eyes of a lover.
In 1975 Garry Winogrand made a book of photographs entitled Women are beautiful. Winogrand loved women, and his photographs are a testament to this love. I share Winogrand’s love and compulsion to photograph women, but my methods are very different. This work is intended to be a response, 36 years later, by a female photographer working with the conscious collaboration of her models, to the same subject.
“I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.” Garry Winogrand
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