Jo Spence
Beyond the Family Album (Family in the Garden, 1939), 1979
Silver Bromide print
9.2 x 14.8 cms
3 9/16 x 5 13/16 ins
Series: 4. Opening up the Family Album (1988-89)
12405
Provenance
The Jo Spence Memorial ArchiveRichard Saltoun Gallery, London
For reproductions of related images of the same scene see also the opening sections of Jo Spence, Putting Myself in the Picture. 'I began (through Beyond the Family Album) to...
For reproductions of related images of the same scene see also the opening sections of Jo Spence, Putting Myself in the Picture.
"I began (through Beyond the Family Album) to reverse the process of the way I had been constructed as a woman by deconstructing myself visually in an attempt to identify the process by which I had been 'put together'. I still feel that personal is political. There is no way I could have understood fully the political implications of trying to represent other people (however well intentioned) if I had not first of all begun to explore how I had built a view of myself through other people's representations of me." Jo Spence
"I began (through Beyond the Family Album) to reverse the process of the way I had been constructed as a woman by deconstructing myself visually in an attempt to identify the process by which I had been 'put together'. I still feel that personal is political. There is no way I could have understood fully the political implications of trying to represent other people (however well intentioned) if I had not first of all begun to explore how I had built a view of myself through other people's representations of me." Jo Spence