Deana Lawson @ MoMA New Photography 2011

Flex, 2010

Daughter, 2007

Diva at 73 yrs old, 2009

Nan Goldin - Scopophilia @ Matthew Marks NY

Nan Goldin invited by Le Louvre to compose a collection of images of her own work and images from the Lourve's collection. She was allowed to photograph anything in the museum. The way she has composed the images together brings the older paintings alive and enables the viewer to realise the timelessness of such human behaviour.

Nikki S. Lee from Hiphop, Hispanic, Ohio, Schoolgirl, Tourist and Yuppie Series.

After observing particular subcultures and ethnic groups, Nikki S. Lee adopts their general style and attitude through dress, gesture, and posture, and then approaches the group in her new guise. She introduces herself as an artist (though not everyone believes her or takes it seriously), and then spends several weeks participating in the group’s routine activities and social events while a friend or member of the group photographs her with an ordinary automatic “snapshot” camera.

Holly/Bridie/Hannah/Abbie/Bradie/Lucy/Toni/Alex/Beth/Polly and Ella. /16-18yrs/

First composition of Leeds rainbow heads. All hair colour DIY. Thinking about series and what is the best way to put them together.

Will compose all of the 23 girls I shot in Leeds last week and hopefully shoot more when I return in two weeks.

Lottie and Ella2 are teaching me about the relevance of series and sent me to order The Infinite Line , Briony Fer, and look at Olga Chernysheva.

Kristen and Frida

Frida Kahlo, Kristen Wiig

Vintage Festival 2011 @ Southbank, Saturday

Sanja Ivekovic

Double-Life, 1975-6

Extracts from Lotty Sanna's 2011 Dissertation-

Pretty Vacant: Narcissism and Feminist Activism in Sanja Iveković's work of the 1970s

Sanja Iveković (Zagreb, 1949) is a female artist whose career began in former Yugoslavia in the 1970s and whose oeuvre of work consists of collage, photography, video, drawings, public action and installation. Iveković’s most powerful works address the issue of the representation of women in the ‘public’ sphere and the way that this affects a woman’s behaviour in her ‘private’ life.

In 1975-76, as a reaction to the imagery promoted by mass media that had begun to invade the whole visual world of Iveković’s society, she created three series, A Double Life, 1975, Tragedy of a Venus, 1975, and A Sweet Life, 1975-6.

In Double Life Iveković creates sixty four juxtaposed image comparisons using advertisements containing a picture of a woman next to photographs of herself, taken from her private collection (1953-75), in which her look and pose resemble that of the other woman.

For Sweet Life, an image from a celebrity scandal magazine is compared to a private photograph of Iveković.

In Tragedy of a Venus an image of Iveković is compared to an image of Marilyn Monroe taken from a magazine published after her death. Each series flows into the next, lending themselves to being viewed as a whole series.

Viewed together they provide a visualisation of the artist’s progressive realisation of her lack of originality and agency, as her life mimics so closely the images that surround her.

Warrior Silvers

Maggie Smith as Professor McGonigal In HP&DH II, Anjelica as Etheline in The Royal Tenenbaums, Meryl Streep in The Hours

Warrior Blondes

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Patricia Arquette fighting back in True Romance, Joanna Lumley as Patsy in AbFab, Daryl Hannah in Kill Bill II, Jemima Pearl of BeYourOwnPet, Robyn Cohen in The Life Aquatic, SJo in Sofia Coppella's Lost in Translation, Uma in Kill Bill II, C Sevigny in Big Love, Gwyneth as Margot Tenenbaum in The RTs, Ludvine Sagnier in Swimming Pool