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<div>Anne Collier,<i> Woman Crying #1</i>, 2016. C-Print. Courtesy of
the artist; © Anne Collier.</div>
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<div><font size="+1">Anne Collier uses objects or photos that she
finds in manuals, calendars, posters, on record sleeves, magazine
covers and postcards, which she photographs using commercial or studio
photography techniques. The artist has chosen to focus on the question
of how women are perceived and how they perceive themselves: the<i>
Woman With A Camera</i> series is the most emblematic example of this.
The series shows photos of magazine pages and covers in which the
female body, in many cases naked, is instrumentalised. Despite a
certain visual neutrality, Collier emphasises the eminently sexist
nature of these images, which are used for commercial purposes. Other
photos depict adverts in which the models or actresses take hold of
the camera and aim it at the spectator, as a way of turning the
"male perception" of women on its head.</font></div>
<div><font size="+1">This also applies to the "Women With Cameras
(Anonymous)" slideshow, in which the artist has compiled a
collection of amateur photos of women holding a camera or taking
photos. In addition, some of the photos from her latest series,<i>
Women Crying</i>, will be widely used. The images, created from record
album covers spanning the 1950s to the 1980s, which the artist has
cropped and substantially enlarged, show part of a woman's face with
a shiny eye, shedding a tear. Through the emotional, sexual and/or
personal connotations of these images, Anne Collier explores seduction
and sex appeal, which are often artificial and purvey clichés,
promoted by press and advertising photos, especially those vaunting
the merits of photographic equipment and cameras. She also reveals how
the image of women is transformed, according to whether they are in
front of, or behind, the camera.</font></div>
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<div>Anne Collier (born 1970 in Los Angeles) studied at CalArts and
UCLA in Los Angeles in the 1990s and 2000s, under the conceptual
artists John Baldessari and James Welling, among others. She lives and
works in New York.</div>
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