Whitney Hubbs (born 1977) is an American photographer. [1] [2] [3] Her work is held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum [4] and UCR/California Museum of Photography. [5]
Hubbs was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated with a degree in photography from California College of the Arts in 2005 and received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009. [2]
With the series Body Doubles, "she photographed women in various states of undress, their faces obscured by a variety of textured papers and fabrics in bold colors" [2] "in poses that defy the conventional language of nude photography." [6] "The series was her way of showering off the male gaze by looking at women through her own eyes." [2]
Her book Say So (2021) contains self-portraits [7] that could, in the words of Chris Wiley writing in frieze, "be superficially described as sadomasochistic erotica, since they feature Hubbs in a variety of compromising position and in various states of undress." However, "when we plumb their depths, these pictures reveal themselves as being less about titillation and more about universal, close-to-the-bone emotional struggles..." [8]
Hubbs is the associate director of Light Work in Syracuse, NY. [3]
Hubbs' work is held in the following permanent collections: