MPS 301 Lecture Notes - Wart, Piss Christ
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American born in 1953, brought up in a wealthy boston family. Her older sister committed suicide at 16 when nan was 14. She then left her family and was raised in foster care. She later found her way into art school. She was rooming with transvestites as well as other members of the gay community. She then moved to greenwich village and started photographing photos of drugs use. She worked in the 1970 and 80s to show her work in bars and in the community of which she was involved. She would show her work in slide shows. She had 75 slides and would show them in 45 minutes. She made this work for the community in which she lived and the community that was involved. 1986 she had risen in prominence that she began to standardize her exhibitions to a certain sequence of slides. 1986 125 photos from this group was printed by aperture.
