Maxine Walker

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Maxine Walker (born 1962) is a British-Jamaican photographer and critic. Based in Handsworth and active between 1985 and 1997, Walker has been described by Rianna Jade Parker as "a force within the Black British Art movement". [1] Her photographs emphasise the fictive nature of documentary convention, and "raise questions about the nature of identity, challenging racial stereotypes". [2]

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Life

Maxine Walker was born in 1962 in Birmingham, England. [3]

Walker's 1987 series Auntie Lindie's House challenged the unmediated nature of documentary photography, replicating photographic conventions within a fictional context. Black Beauty, a 1980s series, and Untitled, a series for the 1995 Self Evident exhibition, both consisted of self-portraits. [2] Untitled contained a sequence of ten closely-cropped black and white photographs, in which Walker appeared to peel away successive layers of her surface skin. [4]

Walker has written various reviews and texts for art magazines and exhibition-related publication. [5] After Polareyes, a 1987 exhibition of black women photographers at the Camden Arts Centre, she co-edited and contributed to a short-lived journal of the same name. In 1999 she published a short artist's book in the series published by Autograph. [6]

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Exhibitions

Writing

References

  1. ↑ Rianna Jade Parker (19 August 2019). "How British-Jamaican Photographer Maxine Walker Disrupted the Idea of an Approved Womanhood". frieze . Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Barnwell, Andrea D. (2002). "Walker, Maxine". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 319. ISBN   978-1-134-70025-7.
  4. 1 2 "Maxine Walker: Untitled". Autograph. 2019.
  5. ↑ Melanie Keen; Liz Ward, eds. (1996). Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art. inIVA in collaboration with the Chelsea College of Art and Design. p. 108. ISBN   1899846069.
  6. ↑ Maxine Walker (1999). Mark Sealy (ed.). Maxine Walker: Monograph. Autograph. ISBN   1899282505.
  7. ↑ "Intimate Distance: Five Female Artists". The Photographers’ Gallery. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  8. ↑ Martina Attille (November–December 1995). "Scared of you: Martina Attille on Self Evident". Women's Art Magazine. 67.
  9. ↑ "Maxine Walker: Untitled". What's On: Birmingham. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2022.

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