She Took Her Own Picture
Friday, September 12th, 2008
It is finally here! She Took Her Own Picture is a selection of self portraits by 44 female self portrait artists on Flickr. The contributors, which include myself, hail from North and Latin America, Australia, the Caribbean, Oceania, and all over Europe including the UK and Ireland.
The idea for the collaboration came about about a year ago in a discussion in the Female Self Portrait Artists’ Support Group, and since then, through trials and tribulations, team work, tweaking and engineering, the divine collection has finally been produced through a self-publisher online, and at the end of this week, will be available to the public!
The final result is impressive. Each artist has a double page spread, with a short piece of text. There are also ‘feature pages’ of certain pictures as voted by each of the other women (just one stage of the long and extensive process of producing this publication.) The book’s design is of a remarkably high standard and encourages us to believe our mission of pursuing a commercial art publisher will be fruitful. At the moment it is not-for-profit, but when we do produce the book on a wider scale, we aim to donate a percentage of the profits to women’s causes.
I’ve found that viewing these other women’s self portraits in print offers a sensual pleasure that you seldom get when viewing pictures onscreen. Both images and text have inspired me - I have found that I can relate to something in every woman’s text. The best thing is that there’s nothing quite like this out there in the art book market. We truly have something special and you can get your hands on a copy - for a limited time only! Click on the image to view and buy the book on Blurb. You can view a preview of the first fifteen pages here…
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