Whitney Hubbs

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Whitney Hubbs (born 1977) is an American photographer, living in western New York. [1] [2] [3] Her work is held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum [4] and UCR/California Museum of Photography. [5]

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Early life and education

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 Southern California in 2009. [2]

Life and work

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 positions (bound and gagged, piss-covered, breasts plastered with glistening blobs of pink chewing gum) 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, and Hubbs's attempt to overcome them." [8]

Hubbs is a professor of photography at Alfred University in Western New York. [3]

Publications

Solo exhibitions

Collections

Hubbs' work is held in the following permanent collections:

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