All nine photos depict the pale, ish woman in various states of repose. Although it may be assumed that such non-activity is endemic to the agoraphobic lifestyle, it still lends the pictures an air of sickly elegance. In Mom Smoking Extra Long, she reclines on a couch like some washed-up vamp in a studio-lot trailer; in Mom Making Up, she purses her lips before a dressing-room mirror studded with burned-out bulbs.
The lighting in these matte photographs is somewhere between garish and B-movie dramatic; indeed, most could be stills from films about evil step- mothers. Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford comes to mind, as does the mirror-gazing sorceress in Snow White: in one untitled photo, the elder Minter is reflected in an ornate oval-looking glass straight out of that Disney fantasy.
Fully made up but with no place to go, she smiles wanly at her fair reflection as she buttons the neck of her nightgown. But rank tropical sweat and dated commercial props draw us back from the brink of fiction. Likewise the crumbling of the woman's physical and psychological being, here so matter-of-factly portrayed. At the time Minter took these photos, straight-shooting social documentarians like Larry Clark, Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus were making, or were soon to make, some of their best work.
Arbus, in fact, was Minter's photography teacher; hers and Winogrand's pictures of grotesquely ordinary Americans were surely an influence. In another of Minter's untitled works, her mother lies in bed, one spotty arm draped coyly behind a head swathed in curlers, surrounded by her pathetic accoutrements: a Christian Victory hymnal, an ancient radio, a hand-held mirror and a scattering of name-brand creams and emollients.
Pink Triangle , Antifreeze , Blindfold , Lilith , — Swarv , Blue Shower , Scott Richards Contemporary Art. Static , Prism , Markowicz Fine Art. Barbell , Indigo , Whisper , Twin Frost , Lehmann Maupin. There's this constant distortion that's happening between all of us—men and women—there's a sense of failure. But at the same time, all of this pleasure. Moving to New York in , the artist utilized her skills in both in photography and painting to capture banal scenes featuring nudity, food, and fashion.
The artist currently lives and works in New York, NY. Today, her works are held in the collections of the Solomon R. Marilyn Minter, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany.
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