Record

Collection NameHimid, Lubaina
RefNoTGA 202310/14/39
LevelFile
TitlePress release and brochure for exhibitions of new work by photographers Ajamu and Sunil Gupta at Standpoint Studios, Coronet Street, London, organised by Autograph
Date16 Sep-17 Oct 1999
Extent2 items
Access StatusOPEN
LocationManuscript collection
DescriptionThe exhibitions were : Sunil Gupta, 'From here to eternity'; and Ajamu, 'Anti/bodies : a spectacle of strangeness'.

Ajamu later became known as Ajamu X.

Press release mentions circus and side show performers; the Ron G. Becker Collection; Goliath, Cyclops; the Walt Disney film 'Snow White and the seven dwarves' (1937); homosexuality; and HIV and AIDS.

Brochure includes texts by Emmanuel Cooper and Dylan Joshua Potter. The texts additionally mention people of Asian and African origin; Europe; the indigenous peoples of North America; Britain; the Christian religion; Pocahontas; the Caribbean; Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel 'Uncle Tom's cabin' (1852); Steven Spielberg's film 'E.T. the extra terrestrial' (1982); 'The Jerry Springer show'; and Jake and Dinos Chapman.

The brochure is illustrated by Gupta's 'Chicago' and 'The Hoist'; and Ajamu's 'Auto-portrait as armless and legless wonder' and 'Nadine Cockburn, the bearded girl, at the age of 13, Huddersfield'.
FormatDocument - printed ephemera
LanguageEnglish
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