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Article: Chris Verence at Paul Morris.(New York, New York)(review of exhibitions)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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If anyone requires proof of the feminist assertion of the "male gaze" and the sexual pleasure derived from looking, photographer Chris Verene's "Camera Club" series provides it. Verene's 14 lurid, hypervivid images showing amateur male photographers plying their "art" on half-dressed young women make such theoretical hypotheses humorously literal. By stepping back with his own camera for a view of the person doing the looking, Verene plainly reveals the myriad hidden agendas which haunt the practice of photography.
These lusciously banal 24-by-20-inch Cibachromes make hyperbolically clear photography's power imbalance. The Camera Club's operation is founded on a ...