Jo Spence
Opening Up the Family Album (Cambridge Darkroom/Karen Knorr), 1989
Album page
38 x 24.5 cms
14 15/16 x 9 10/16 ins
Series: 4. Opening up the Family Album (1988-89)
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Provenance
The Jo Spence Memorial ArchiveRichard Saltoun Gallery, London
Exhibitions
Jo Spence: A Woman’s Place? at Belfast Exposed in Collaboration with the Centre for British Photography. 7th October 2024 – 21st December 2024
Photographs 1985. Page from unique artist's book assembled 1989. Beneath the three photographs Spence has written: 'Olivier and Karen Bullshitting at Cambridge Darkroom 27.7.85' Karen Knorr, the subject of two...
Photographs 1985.
Page from unique artist's book assembled 1989.
Beneath the three photographs Spence has written: "Olivier and Karen Bullshitting at Cambridge Darkroom 27.7.85"
Karen Knorr, the subject of two of these pictures, did not know that Spence had taken these photographs.
Knorr comments on them and their caption: "Typical Jo! She was quite an anti-intellectual and saw any critical theory outside of early Marx as bullshit. We were reading Deleuze and Baudrillard and interested in Post Modern theory. "Continental" theory was considered by most Brits to be difficult to understand. Philosophy Aesthetics and Critical Theory was shunned by most British photographers like Martin Parr, Brian Griffin and Peter Fraser. We were the non British, the others, the "aliens". We were the minority then." Karen Knorr October 2020.
Page from unique artist's book assembled 1989.
Beneath the three photographs Spence has written: "Olivier and Karen Bullshitting at Cambridge Darkroom 27.7.85"
Karen Knorr, the subject of two of these pictures, did not know that Spence had taken these photographs.
Knorr comments on them and their caption: "Typical Jo! She was quite an anti-intellectual and saw any critical theory outside of early Marx as bullshit. We were reading Deleuze and Baudrillard and interested in Post Modern theory. "Continental" theory was considered by most Brits to be difficult to understand. Philosophy Aesthetics and Critical Theory was shunned by most British photographers like Martin Parr, Brian Griffin and Peter Fraser. We were the non British, the others, the "aliens". We were the minority then." Karen Knorr October 2020.