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While visiting Hervé Joseph Lebrun in Paris to discuss preparations for this exhibition, I learned the meaning behind Albrecht Becker’s rubber dick. Becker had made a few such objects—prodigious penises cut out of rubber, expressionistically painted, and attached to a standing wooden pole—but they only appear in a handful of his thousands of photographs. Becker gave one of them to Lebrun as part of a large bequest of his work. Unfolding it gingerly before my eyes, Lebrun explained that Becker would set up the pole wherever he intended to stand and then focus his camera on the rubber cock before taking its place and triggering the shutter release. So, Becker and his cock were interchangeable, at least as concerns the camera.
There’s a classic saying from the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan that the difference between men and women is the difference between having and being the phallus. Becker’s interchangeability with his cock thus introduces a degree of gender trouble. By focusing on his…
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While visiting Hervé Joseph Lebrun in Paris to discuss preparations for this exhibition, I learned the meaning behind Albrecht Becker’s rubber dick. Becker had made a few such objects—prodigious penises cut out of rubber, expressionistically painted, and attached to a standing wooden pole—but they only appear in a handful of his thousands of photographs. Becker gave one of them to Lebrun as part of a large bequest of his work. Unfolding it gingerly before my eyes, Lebrun explained that Becker would set up the pole wherever he intended to stand and then focus his camera on the rubber cock before taking its place and triggering the shutter release. So, Becker and his cock were interchangeable, at least as concerns the camera.
There’s a classic saying from the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan that the difference between men and women is the difference between having and being the phallus. Becker’s interchangeability with his cock thus introduces a degree of gender trouble. By focusing on his…
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