Jo Spence
Photo therapy: From a session on Powerlessness, 1988
Vintage C-type print
15 x 10 cms
5 14/16 x 3 14/16 ins
Series: 5. Photo Therapy Collaborations (1984-90)
12312
Provenance
The Jo Spence Memorial ArchiveRichard Saltoun Gallery, London
Exhibitions
Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead: Techniques of Becoming at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 16 October 2021 - 2 January 2022Jo Spence : from Fairy Tales to Phototherapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection, Arnolfini Bristol, (18th May 2020 - 20th June 2021) (this print)
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 (Illustrated full page p.98)
Collaboration with David Roberts. In Cultural Sniping this work is Illustrated full page (p.98) in the chapter 'Questioning documentay practice? The sign as a site of struggle' on a page...
Collaboration with David Roberts.
In Cultural Sniping this work is Illustrated full page (p.98) in the chapter "Questioning documentay practice? The sign as a site of struggle" on a page headed "Class, Realism and Beyond". Beneath the image is the following caption:
"Rising like a phoenix I create a further image which represents my decision after being hounded from the first National Conference of Photography for giving an 'inadeqate' keynote psper abput class and power relations. I retreat into my illness and turn my back on the photographic world. There seems to be no safe position from which to speak."
In Cultural Sniping this work is Illustrated full page (p.98) in the chapter "Questioning documentay practice? The sign as a site of struggle" on a page headed "Class, Realism and Beyond". Beneath the image is the following caption:
"Rising like a phoenix I create a further image which represents my decision after being hounded from the first National Conference of Photography for giving an 'inadeqate' keynote psper abput class and power relations. I retreat into my illness and turn my back on the photographic world. There seems to be no safe position from which to speak."