Nancy Chalker-Tennant, USA
Load Expose (1990)
The title here refers to the beginning and end stages in the making of photographs, and silkscreened images that comprise this book all centre around the language employed in that process. Embedded within their nervous calligraphy, and often only apparent after sustained viewing, are terms such as “trouble shooting”, “dodging”, “masking”, and “pose”. By virtue of Chalker-Tennant’s suggestive graphic vocabulary, these seemingly neutral words come to take on meanings outside of their restrictive use as photographic terminology and are themselves loaded. 20 pp., 21.5 x 26, paperback. Edition 100. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosedale, N.Y.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane