Word: dater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing at the air in the style of a barnstorming evangelist. Judy Dater--another photographer--glances down with daydreaming eyes and a half smile as she stretches out her long black hair with her fingers. Her portraits of Martha Graham are studies in extension and complete muscular control, but Imogen captures the dancer most effectively in a close-up of her hands...
Alisa Wells and Judy Dater are among those women represented who are still working. Wells is metaphorical and autobiographical. She makes the most extensive use of technical manipulation. Some of her images are altered by overexposure, superimposed frames, and silver print for effect. Judy Dater is interesting because she emphasizes women and their bodies. Her results clash resoundingly with the aura men produce from similar models. These aren't demurring women about to extend or accept an invitation, they confront you with their sexuality. Some are beautiful, yet that's not what attracts attention. These women are provocative because their...
...favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate women in ways that they would otherwise angrily resist. 'An End to Rape' does not so much refer to rapes on the streets as to the daily brutalization of contact between doctor and patient, employer and employee, dater and datee...
...Judy Dater was another device to multiply her images: a mirror. In the same way that the Impressionist tradition would stand a girl at the her in front of a mirror, Dater articulates the elements of reflections by photographing a seated, nude girl leaning against a mirror. Whether prostitute or dance-hall girl, she appears in triplicate with her choler and black stockings. We see her, fine, bony features straight-on and in profile, her legs bent to the right and to the left--symmetrically reposed--and openly exposed in the upper righthand corner. An umbrella in the lower right...