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Picture Puzzles

If only it were just a book of myths in which our names do not appear. But women have regularly been written out of history as well. Given such systemic erasure of women’s experiences, Tammy Rae Carland’s remark which gave her DUMA show its title is particularly apt: “I want to reinsert myself into history,” […]

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Department Store Shoot-out

From photography’s beginnings, the act of taking pictures has been described in the vocabulary of war and hunting. Cameras are loaded, shutters cocked; a lens is aimed at a subject who is subsequently shot. In Theft in the Dolls’ House, Jill Casid and Maria DeGuzman continue this potent metaphor, “poaching” images from “staged scenes of […]

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