I look just like my daddy, 2003, by cass bird through her photographs, cass bird asserts the positive existence of. The book was shot over two weeks in the summers of 2009 and 2010. As bird puts it, my job is not to just take a pretty picture. A great way to introduce kids to nature and the joys of bird watching, my first bird book and bird feeder combines a fullcolor illustrated field guide and activity book with a customdesigned, sky blue window feeder. Stylist elle strauss meets her future husband on set, at home in san francisco with entrepreneur and philanthropist trevor traina. Laughlin bloom favors grant woods arnold comes of age. Sixteenyearold juliet moreau has built a life for herself in londonworking as a maid. The inclusion of a photograph of jd samson of the band le tigre calls to mind the history of queer youth cultures. Cass bird, i look just like my daddy, 2003 printed 2010.
The reading will tie into the photo centers current exhibition, author and subject. Cass bird is a contemporary, her art is in levis and converse ads, she directed a music video for lissy trullie, and shes a big homo. This little girl just showed tesco that she wont stand for its sexist marketing little girls like this make me feel better about our future. Molly guy is the creative director of stone fox bride, a new york citybased bridal showroom and online retailer. Daddy at nighttime when the sky is dark,and all the stars shine bright, i snuggle up so cozily beside the warm firelight, just like my daddy. The lowslung black car rolled to a stop on rockaway boulevard. The obsession with seeing someone and letting them see you, that moment is pretty fing profound. Cass bird born 1974 is a contemporary photographer who says that her. The audience is there, and they want to have the lecture.
The focal point of the brooklyn museum exhibition, blossom 2007, is. Its not just that i look similar, its because they knew my father. The material outlined here is much more extensively analyzed in my book. Difference and desire in american portraiture october 30 through february, 2011, the snpg, this is the first major museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern american portraiture. My interview for the creative brief, british journal of photography talent issue june 2016. In several books and papers, nussbaum quotes a sentence by the sociologist erving. Outside of the calendar, my personal favorite is a photo called i look just like my daddy 2004, which is a medium shot of a person wearing a flannel shirt and trucker hat which features the. Cass bird s photoessay provides a parodic pictorial take on conventional performances of gender i look just like my daddy and i look just like my mommy and puts a queer twist on sexual practices golden shower. A spirit of celebratory resistance pervades, from a 1928 ballad by ma rainey, prove it on me blues, to a 2004 photograph by cass bird of an androgynous young woman in a cap that reads i. And then we also see the nurture aspect, with mae having cass s tough girl attitude and leo having my love of reading, writing, and excelling at school. Difference and desire in american portraiture at the smithsonian national portrait gallery, washington, dc, which is currently on until february, 2010. Her caps proclamation is likewise ambiguousperhaps it is true, or perhaps it is an ironic statement of an expectation that will never be realized. Deconstructing art history narratives at the brooklyn.
Her father tells her, arent you a philosopher because you want, really, to live. I like to watch whats going on in the scorching jungle sun. First lady michelle obama and president barack obama. The hardest part is brushing their teeth after reading 10 books and five.
Freja beha erichsen by cass bird in cinnamon girl for dossier issue 6 fw 2010 cover girl, freja beha erichsen, takes to the stable for dossier journals fallwinter edition. Whether this is true or ironic matters less than the outright proclamation that a female is being compared to a male. Using online search tools, books, and your own photographs, collect images that relate to this aspect of your identity. But you have to be sensitive to the children who might not have fathers so you could discuss grandfathers or uncles.
Martha nussbaums moral philosophies the new yorker. As bird told wwd in 2012, i think my interest was always about people, and it still is that. I fell in love with the jacket and then, i fell in love with the book. If you can only remember what the cover looks like, try this coversearch tool. Difference and desire in american portraiture traces the evolution of sexual identities through a diverse range of artworks including video, paintings, sculptures and photographs. The thing about your books, about mina, about skellig, and about my dad s a birdman, is that they are full of magic. It is ambisexual in cass bird s portrait of a young woman in a baseball cap printed with the phrase i look just like my daddy. Gender, sexuality, visual culture final images flashcards. Hideseek uncovers lesbian images in art afterellen. I want it to be beautiful, but i think my priority is that it feels engaged and feels like an experience.
Difference and desire in american portraiture, opens today at the brooklyn museum. There was a little boy in my class who was his dad s twin and loved this book because he said, im just like my dad. As one of the most soughtafter fashion photographers, cass travels the world. Cass bird s photographs are instantly recognizable.
Sharon lovejoy, author of toad cottages and shooting stars, sunflower houses, and other uplifting nature and gardening titles, brings her expertise and artistic sensibility to. For instance, if you look at the traditional construction of pleasure, you. Parrot i sit upon my favorite perch and squawk at everyone. The exhibition that made headlines at the national portrait gallery in washington, d. Finding a book when youve forgotten its title the new york. Smith college alum and photographer cass bird challenges concepts of gender through exploration of a close friend.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Difference and desire in american portraiture brings together more than one hundred works in a wide range of media, including paintings, photographs, works on paper, film, and installation art. Finally, the contemporary portion of the show turns back to female gender play with photos of ellen degeneres and a woman dressed in flannel and a trucker hat by cass bird. Leo is a night owl just like cass, they both love staying up late and sleeping late. By editors frank ohara by alice neel eight bells folly by marsden hartley.
The only other piece im going to mention is cass bird s photograph. Her caps proclamation is likewise ambiguous perhaps it is true, or perhaps it is ironic statement of an expectation that will never be realized. In this photograph, taken on a rooftop in brooklyn, bird s friend macaulay stares out from under a cap emblazoned with the words i look just like my daddy. A fire in my belly, acrylic on canvas, aids, american portraiture, beauford delaney, beauford delaney james baldwin, berenice abbott, berenice abbott janet flanner, bodily pleasure, body image and the gay male, brooklyn museum, ctype print, cass bird, cass bird i look just like my daddy, charles demuth, charles demuth dancing sailors. Cass bird born 1974 is an artist, photographer, and director who lives and works in new york city. The first major museum exhibition to focus on themes of gender and sexuality in modern american portraiture, hideseek. Over the longer term, obviously, bigger changes will occur. Most recently, her work has been shown at palazzo cavour in turin, italy. Lee schwartz, bird s brotherinlaw, is an art director and has been working for some years with bird on campaigns for the fashion brand maiyet. I look just like my daddy conceptual photographer, boston,past.
I look just like my daddy and i look just like my mommy feature bird s friend macauly. After my rapturous reading of my name is mina, i came to my dad s a birdman with open arms. I look just like my daddy, 2004 chromogenic photograph, 40 x 30 in. Terry barely had a relationship with his father for the better part of 20 years.
Below are cass bird s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually. Theres a reason for the number 2 tagged onto the end of the title. For ward, its marsden hartleys memorial to poet hart crane, eight bells folly above left, and cass bird s i look just like my daddy above right. Contemporary queer photography, with a discussion of judith butlers imitation and gender subordination. Every book on emma watsons reading list emma watson. Today i want to talk about two photographs in the show, berenice abbotts portrait of janet flanner and cass bird s i look just like my daddy, 2. I love reading it when we are discussing family or family roles in the classroom. Secret life of transgender rocker tom gabel rolling stone. Difference and desire in american portraiture, at the brooklyn museum, includes cass bird s i look just like my daddy, a.
One of the interviews, she said, had made her look like a person who has. Cass bird, i look just like my daddy, 2003 meeting 4 of the first mondays discussion group is may 7th from 69 p. Deconstructing art history narratives at the brooklyn museum. In the intro gallery to the exhibit hang two photographs by brooklynbased photographer cass bird. This little girl just schooled tesco over a sexist sign because anybody can like superheroes spiderman rules. Bird has exhibited widely within the united states and abroad, in exhibitions.
I look just like my daddy which i fell in love with as soon as i saw it. Bird s pictures are featured regularly in the new yorker, fader magazine, new york, and the new york times magazine. Brooklyn museum archives page 5 of 7 the new york history blog. And then there is what richardson refers to as the internet but is really the wider. Photographed by cass bird and styled by gillian wilkins loved this so much chopped off my hair a few nights back to get a similar shag like. Lgbtq artists in the american tradition of portraiture. The 2015 joop swart masterclass selection committee during the selection process.