Stripped

by Laura Carton

Based in New York, media artist Laura Carton created the photographs in 'Stripped' by downloading a variety of pornographic images from the Internet, removing the bodies and then digitally reconstructing the backgrounds from the existing evidence. Looking beyond the camouflage of naked flesh, what remain are the carefully constructed and over-produced fictions of domestic space, suburban melodramas, utopian ideals and fantasies. These new narratives offer a number of sites from which to question underlying assumptions about sexuality, class, race, desire and commodification. 'Stripped' is printed in a first edition of 500 copies. 'What s particularly alluring about these images is the way they implicate the viewer in the missing action . . . shorn of buffed, blow-dried actors, they lose their practical function and become open-ended. Your imagination does the rest.' - The New York Times

60 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 2010