About the Book
This book is about women in the middle of their lives. Photography has been used to record times of transition. The journey from childhood to adolescence has been widely chronicled. However, very little exists around 'feminine' midlife transition; it is virtually unrecorded, invisible. Women of an Uncertain Age sets about redressing the balance and find out how one varied group of women feel about themselves at this time in their lives. Accompanied by their own words and photographed in their chosen spaces, women in this generation speak and appear for, and by, themselves.
"Sukey Parnell’s photographic project, Women of an Uncertain Age, looks at the transitional period where so many women start to lose their visibility in society. Sukey’s pictures cut across class boundaries and capture the cusp between ages, revealing how we deal with what can seem like a precipice."
Anna Chen Writer, Broadcaster, Performer
"Sukey Parnell’s photographic project, Women of an Uncertain Age, looks at the transitional period where so many women start to lose their visibility in society. Sukey’s pictures cut across class boundaries and capture the cusp between ages, revealing how we deal with what can seem like a precipice."
Anna Chen Writer, Broadcaster, Performer
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
# of Pages: 86 -
Isbn
- Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9781320023054
- Publish Date: Feb 11, 2010
- Language English
- Keywords age, women, beauty, identity, portraits, femininity
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About the Creator
Sukey Parnell Johnson
London
I am a photographic artist and performer working at creating portrayals on both sides of the camera. Photographically, my particular area of interest is the transaction of the portrait between photographer and sitter, and viewer and portrayed - and the representation of age and 'femininity'. Having worked in the creative industries as an actress and singer, I bring a 'theatrical' sensibility to my portraits, creating a moment of heightened appearance and evoking a sense of the unseen psychic lives and character of my sitters. I was awarded a PhD by practice in 2018 for my exploration of the forces constraining the appearance of older women: Hagging the Image was a series of experimental films 'in the round'.