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Jori Finkel on Lynn Hershman Leeson: Deep Fake
Marilyn Monroe spent years in analysis and even consulted Freud’s daughter Anna Freud at one point while filming in London. But she never met the father of psychoanalysis himself, which makes their coupling in an artwork by Lynn Hershman Leeson particularly surprising and satisfying. The artist has layered photographic negatives to combine their faces into a portrait—his head sprouting from hers like Athena from Zeus, or the conscious mind emerging from the unconscious. And vice versa, as her head grows from his in another work, and the two titans of human desire become one.
These experiments were the start of a larger series, Hero Sandwiches, where the artist fused publicity stills of two stars—one male, one female—to create pre-Photoshop composite images. Dolly Parton merges with John Wayne, Janis Joplin with James Dean and David Bowie with Katharine Hepburn, the latter blending, in their androgyny, the most seamlessly of all. Otherwise…
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Jori Finkel on Lynn Hershman Leeson: Deep Fake
Marilyn Monroe spent years in analysis and even consulted Freud’s daughter Anna Freud at one point while filming in London. But she never met the father of psychoanalysis himself, which makes their coupling in an artwork by Lynn Hershman Leeson particularly surprising and satisfying. The artist has layered photographic negatives to combine their faces into a portrait—his head sprouting from hers like Athena from Zeus, or the conscious mind emerging from the unconscious. And vice versa, as her head grows from his in another work, and the two titans of human desire become one.
These experiments were the start of a larger series, Hero Sandwiches, where the artist fused publicity stills of two stars—one male, one female—to create pre-Photoshop composite images. Dolly Parton merges with John Wayne, Janis Joplin with James Dean and David Bowie with Katharine Hepburn, the latter blending, in their androgyny, the most seamlessly of all. Otherwise…
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