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.