Got A Girl Crush On: Princess Darth Vader

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My Daughter insisted on being “Princess Darth Vader” this year. 

Oh man. I just. Can’t. Too much.

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Got A Girl Crush On: These Photos of the Athletic Babes of Pre-War Russia

I don’t really know what organization/games these women are involved with, but these images have inspired some heavyweight girl crushes too big not to share. Do you have any idea?

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Got a Girl Crush On: Excerpts from Teen Angels mag 1977-1980

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Got a Girl Crush On: Robyn Twomey’s portraits of former Playboy Bunnies

Got a Girl Crush On: Laurie Anderson’s “Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)”

Anderson photographed men who called to her or whistled her on the street.  In her artist statement she writes about one experience,

“As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon.  I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’  This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object.  I wheeled around, furious. ‘Did you say that?’ He looked around surprised, then defiant ‘Yeah, so what the fuck if I did?’ I raised my Nikon, took aim began to focus.  His eyes darted back and forth, an undercover cop? CLICK.”

Anderson takes the power from her male pursuers, allowing them nothing more than the momentary fear that their depravity has just been captured in a picture.  

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Got a Girl Crush On: Nina Katchadourian - Mended Spiderwebs (1998)

We’ve already expressed our love for Nina before, so let us reiterate our admiration shall we? 

Artist’s statement:

“In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread. All of the patches were made by inserting segments one at a time directly into the web. I fixed the holes in the web until it was fully repaired, or until it could no longer bear the weight of the thread.

In the process, I often caused further damage when the tweezers got tangled in the web or when my hands brushed up against it by accident.

The morning after the first patch job, I discovered a pile of red threads lying on the ground below the web. At first I assumed the wind had blown them out; on closer inspection it became clear that the spider had repaired the web to perfect condition using its own methods, throwing the threads out in the process.

My repairs were always rejected by the spider and discarded, usually during the course of the night, even in webs which looked abandoned.”

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Got a Girl Crush On: Jennifer Greenburg’s time travel photos, Revising History

Similar to Debbie Grossman’s “My Pie Town” which re-imagined a body of images originally photographed by Russell Lee for the FSA in the 1940s, Greenburg manufactures photos by replacing certain individuals in found vintage photographs with herself.

“I commandeer source material from someone else’s life thus taking over their memories to call my own. There is something inherently false in a family snapshot. Every childhood appears, in images, as idyllic. Every family is depicted as loving and close knit. And often, when we look back at our own images, we co-opt the fantasy that the photograph has created for us. We replace our original memories with something photography has sold to us. It is with this in mind that I have created a body of counterfeit images that depict fictitious memories.”

Read more: Jennifer Greenburg’s time travel photos, “Revising History” — a Q&A

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