Daytime Fantasies
Joyce Neimanas
American, born 1944
Details
Title
Daytime Fantasies
Artist/Maker
Joyce Neimanas (American, born 1944)
Date
1976
Medium
Gelatin silver print with applied color
Dimensions
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Credit
Gift of Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection
Accession #
1992.357.6
Location
Currently not on view
For most of her career, Joyce Neimanas has created photographic images without directly using a camera, choosing instead to make complex collages and photograms of found imagery derived primarily from mass culture. In this work, Neimanas enlarged and printed a still from a 16 mm pornographic film to which she applied color and annotated with text drawn from the controversial Kinsey Report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Made at a time of expanded conversation around gender, feminism, and sexual liberation, this work explores and challenges conventional representations of women’s sexuality.