{"id":1338,"date":"2020-01-08T22:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2020-01-08T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:44:12","slug":"zoe-leonard-and-cheryl-dunye-series-the-fae-richards-photo-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/2020\/01\/08\/zoe-leonard-and-cheryl-dunye-series-the-fae-richards-photo-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye series: The Fae Richards Photo Archive."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Leonard-and-Dunye-Fae-Richards-Google-search.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Leonard-and-Dunye-Fae-Richards-Google-search-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1339\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Leonard-and-Dunye-Fae-Richards-Google-search.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/?attachment_id=1339\" class=\"wp-image-1339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Leonard-and-Dunye-Fae-Richards-Google-search-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Leonard-and-Dunye-Fae-Richards-Google-search-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Leonard-and-Dunye-Fae-Richards-Google-search-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Leonard-and-Dunye-Fae-Richards-Google-search-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Leonard-and-Dunye-Fae-Richards-Google-search-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">google search for Leonard and Dunye , Fae Richards Photo Archive [07\/01\/2020]<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>research:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivesandcreativepractice.com\/zoe-leonard-cheryl-dunye\">http:\/\/www.archivesandcreativepractice.com\/zoe-leonard-cheryl-dunye<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/pbr\/kristen-lubben-zoe-leonard-cheryl-dunye-fae-richards-photo-archive\/\">https:\/\/aperture.org\/pbr\/kristen-lubben-zoe-leonard-cheryl-dunye-fae-richards-photo-archive\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonard and Dunye, created a fictional character; The Watermelon Woman.  Using archive images, they created an exhibition telling the story of Dunye researching the life of Fae Richards a lesbian American-American woman from childhood to old age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunye attributes her photographic falsification of a life history to the lack of information recorded in real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The Watermelon Woman came from the real lack of any information about the lesbian and film history of African-American women. Since it wasn&#8217;t happening, I invented it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another example of individual images becoming more than the sum of their parts and that without context the images can take on another meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story Leonard and Dunye have created is believable because of the way they have presented it.  but it is no more &#8216;real&#8217; than Harry Potter.  They say this is the reality that wasn&#8217;t recorded, however, they have entirely chosen which bits of the story to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have over 143,000 photos in my collection, there must be an archive in there somewhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>research: http:\/\/www.archivesandcreativepractice.com\/zoe-leonard-cheryl-dunye https:\/\/aperture.org\/pbr\/kristen-lubben-zoe-leonard-cheryl-dunye-fae-richards-photo-archive\/ Leonard and Dunye, created a fictional character; The Watermelon Woman. Using archive images, they created an exhibition telling the story of Dunye researching the life of Fae Richards a lesbian American-American woman from childhood to old age. Dunye attributes her photographic falsification of a life history to the lack of information recorded &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/2020\/01\/08\/zoe-leonard-and-cheryl-dunye-series-the-fae-richards-photo-archive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye series: The Fae Richards Photo Archive.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-log","category-part-5-constructed-realities-and-the-fabricated-image","category-project-2-the-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}