Angela Grauerholz, La femme 100 têtes / The Hundred Headless Woman

La femme 100 têtes / The Hundred Headless Woman

Angela Grauerholz

Publisher
Steidl
Year
2025
ISBN
978-3-95829-560-5
Specifications
Otabind brochure
22.5 x 29.7 cm
344 pages
169 images
English

The Hundred Headless Woman presents over 150 portraits of 100 women—some acquaintances, some strangers—taken by Angela Grauerholz over a 30-year period and presented together for the first time. Collaging diverse photos made with various cameras and technologies alongside text fragments from a range of mostly female authors, Grauerholz creates a hybrid between a magazine and a book that forms a complex portrait. The title is borrowed from Max Ernst’s 1929 Surrealist collage novel of the same name, in which he combined cut-up and reassembled nineteenth-century illustrations with bizarre captions. Grauerholz welcomes the double entendre of Ernst’s title—when read aloud in French it means both “the hundred-headed woman” and “the woman without a head.”

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