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ALTERED: Appropriation & Photography

Past exhibition
7 May - 8 August 2014
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lalla Essaydi Les Femmes du Maroc: La Grande Odalisque, woman posing to imitate subject in Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' painting La Grande Odalisque, her skin and all fabric inscribed with Arabic calligraphy in henna

Lalla Essaydi

Les Femmes du Maroc: La Grande Odalisque, 2008
Chromogenic print
33 x 40 inches
Edition of 15 + 5 APs
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Literature

Rose Issa and Michket Krifa, eds., Arab Photography Now (Berlin: K. Verlag, 2011) p. 119; African Artists: From 1882 to Now (New York: Phaidon Press, 2021) p. 109; Jean Robertson and Deborah Hutton, eds.; The History of Art: A Global View, Prehistory to the Present (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2021), p. 1048.

Publications

M. M. Katz, "Letters of Intent" in Canvas, vol. 6, issue 4, 2010 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 97).
R. Issa & M. Krifa (eds.), Arab Photography Now, Berlin 2011 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 119).
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