Photographer #12: Jenette Williams

Jennette Williams’ photographs are in numerous museum collections including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum,The Nasher Museum, The Museum of Photographic Arts, The Addison Gallery and The Yale Art Gallery. Three books of her work, The Bathers (2009), Time Out(2004), and The Wet Class (1998) have been published as well. Her work inspired me in a way because she really put emphasis on the female body and as me being a female, it made me wonder why she put so much emphasis and effort into her work that reflected this body image.  Jenette stated "these images have overlapping lives, artistic, cultural, personal. With these photographs I am engaging with traditions of representation, culture-specific concepts about the female form and femininity, and my own self-image as an American middle-aged (weaned on Twiggy) woman to re-envision ways of seeing and considering the nude female body." I admire her greatly for this.

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