7/4/2023 0 Comments Nathalie leger exposition“In Léger’s hands, desolation can reveal a woman in all her multiplicity-in her ugliness and abasement and determined self-destruction, seemingly ground down to the nubs of her sorrow, but ultimately emerging with a strange richness, full of haunted persistence, droll knowingness, untamed desires, and hardscrabble resilience.” -Leslie Jamison, Bookforum Read an interview with Nathalie Léger at BOMB. Read Amanda DeMarco on translating Exposition at The Paris Review. Set long before our own “selfie” age, Exposition is a remarkably modern investigation into the curses of beauty, fame, vanity, and age, as well as the obsessive drive to control and commodify one’s image. Here, Léger’s subject is the Countess of Castiglione (1837–1899), who at the dawn of photography dedicated herself to becoming the most photographed woman in the world, modeling for hundreds of photos, including “Scherzo di Follia,” among the most famous in history. In each, Léger sets the story of a female artist against the background of her own life and research-an archivist’s journey into the self, into the lives that history hides from us. Exposition is the first in a triptych of books by the award-winning writer and archivist Nathalie L éger that includes Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress.
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