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Eleanor Harwood Gallery

November 8 - December 13, 2008

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1295 Alabama Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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AUTOPORTRAIT from the Reconsidered Archive of Michelle du Bois detail from The Cindy-Shermanesque, But She's The Real Thing
Zoe Crosher: The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle du Bois Opens: Nov. 8th, '08 7-10pm Show Runs; Nov. 8th - Dec. 12th, '08 Artist talk: Nov. 8th at 6pm In the 1970s and ‘80s, an American woman named Michelle du Bois traveled alone through cities in the Pacific Rim and documented her highly sexual and liberated lifestyle, collecting hundreds of tourist photographs, family snapshots, and risque images of herself – and her alter egos. In The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle du Bois, artist Zoe Crosher has manipulated these archived materials to elicit various narratives from within du Bois’s complex process of auto-documentation. In Crosher’s photographic groupings, Du Bois is both heroine and ingénue, toying with persona, identity, fetishism and exoticism. A distinct portrait of a woman emerges, one tied to the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the era, while revealing the vulnerability that accompanies the trappings of her lifestyle and her slippery identity.