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Categories: Photography
Keywords: Body
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Works by Lynn Hershman:
A Room of One's Own: (Echo Narcissus)
Commercials for NY Hotel Rooms CybeRoberta Deep Contact: The First Interactive Sexual Fantasy Videodisc Lorna Roberta Breitmore Teknolust
Check as well:
Mariko Mori Stelarc ORLAN Inez van Lamsweerde Alba D'Urbano Alba D'Urbano «Hautnah» Inez van Lamsweerde «Thank you Tighmaster» ORLAN «La Réincarnation de Sainte Orlan» Mariko Mori «Miko No Inori»
Lynn Hershman
«Phantom Limb Photographs»
The »Phantom Limb Photographs« is a series of black-and-white photographs, where Hershman combines female bodies with different technical features like cameras or camera lenses
»These works merge human bodies with technological cyborgian attributes, pointing out our reliance on electronics and media , and how it invades our physical and psychological collective selves.« (Lynn Hershman)
»Hershman's strategic substitutions of robotic appendages for female anatomical features also allude to the dehumanization brought on by technology. The distinction between the animate and inanimate is uncannilly effaced in these photomontages.« (Christine Tamblyn, Art News, Summer 1990)
