J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Renée Jacobs
Episode #28 Summary:
Polaroids is a celebration of collaboration giving voice to female empowered embodiment of sexuality, desire, sensuality and authentic agency in B & W portraits of female nudes.
Episode Notes
Renée Jacobs, a photojournalistic turned civil rights lawyer turned erotic documentarian, uses photography to explore her own sexuality and to listen and give voice to the desire of her co-collaborators. Joyful, intense, alluring and lustful, each image is a story grounded in visualizing felt emotion. Jacobs notes; “ I switched the lens and the lens switched me.”
In this book group, Renée Jacobs discusses, among other things:
Standing in your own light
Carving a space to listen to co-collaborators
Desire needing context
Twin motivators of loss and longing
Relating to Gordon Parks’ experience of needing Paris
Widening technical exposure, experiment
The luck to have mad genius friends
Inspiration from Japanese bookmaking techniques
The rule of 6 twists to pop French bubbly
Referenced in the episode
Sinners Exhibit in Paris Video
Smith Colleges - Voice of Feminism Oral History Project
Body; The Photography Book - Nathalie Herschdorfer
Fan the Flames ; Queer Positions in Photography at the Ontario Art Museum
Art & Queer Culture - Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer
Aperture 218 Spring 2015 - Queer
Joan E Biren - Dyke Show Lesbian Images in Photo 1850
Published by Galerie VEVAIS