Birgit Jürgenssen. Woman. 1972

Birgit Jürgenssen Woman 1972

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Jürgenssen played an instrumental role in the international feminist avant–garde of the 1970s. In 1972, probing the clichés of gender representation, she took a picture of her own body in four poses to spell out the word frau (woman). In a signature self-portrait from 1976, titled Ich möchte hier raus! (I want out of here!), Jürgenssen, sporting a neat, white lace collar and brooch, presses her cheek and hands against the glass wall of a display case, suggesting in her entrapment the repressive codes of beauty and domesticity that women have often been subject to.

Gallery label from XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography, May 10, 2013–January 6, 2014.
Medium
Gelatin silver print with applied red ink
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 13 1/4" (21 x 33.7 cm)
Credit
Gift of Galerie Hubert Winter
Object number
690.2012
Copyright
© 2019 Birgit Jürgenssen
Department
Photography

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