Jo Spence
Photo therapy: Daddy's Good Little Girl, c.1943 from "The Minefield of Memory", 1985-86
Vintage C-type print
15 x 10 cms
5 14/16 x 3 14/16 ins
Series: 5. Photo Therapy Collaborations (1984-90)
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Provenance
The Jo Spence Memorial ArchiveRichard Saltoun Gallery, London
Exhibitions
Jo Spence : from Fairy Tales to Phototherapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection, Arnolfini Bristol, (18th May 2020 - 20th June 2021) (this print)'Jo Spence. Fairytales and Photography' at the Centre for British Photography (26 January - 28 May 2023)
Jo Spence: A Woman’s Place? at Belfast Exposed in Collaboration with the Centre for British Photography. 7th October 2024 – 21st December 2024
Literature
Jo Spence, Cultural Sniping (close variant illustrated p. 183)
Jo Spence in collaboration with Rosy Martin. Martin writes of this picture that 'work on food and eating also refers to her grandmother's poor diet. In phototherapy session food is...
Jo Spence in collaboration with Rosy Martin.
Martin writes of this picture that "work on food and eating also refers to her grandmother's poor diet. In phototherapy session food is cooked - 'offered up on a plate' - then burnt - and Jo 'as her mother' offers this with the deep disaproval of Jo (her teenage daughter)."
We are grateful to Rosy Martin for her assistance in cataloguing this work.
Martin writes of this picture that "work on food and eating also refers to her grandmother's poor diet. In phototherapy session food is cooked - 'offered up on a plate' - then burnt - and Jo 'as her mother' offers this with the deep disaproval of Jo (her teenage daughter)."
We are grateful to Rosy Martin for her assistance in cataloguing this work.