Rare 1st Edition: Baron Magazine Issue 6: Why Be You When You Can Be Me? by Petra Collins (2019), 1st Edition (Hardcover) | archival print

$130.00
[the ultimate face card test / 00s energy] for the sixth edition of baron, artist petra collins flips the camera lens onto herself... more specifically into herself. uninhibited, gross, disjointed, and confusing, collins places us in a world filled with perverse personal thoughts and lucid landscapes.with the book’s hungarian title miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? collins asks us: why be you, when you can be me? collins uses the camera as the third person. it captures historical truths (such as a time and place) and an emotional reality with a complicated relationship to intention and perception. working with the sculptor sarah sitkin, collins creates moulds of her body as well as her sisters to gain ownership, in a world where our bodies live in multiple realities. this new body of work features collins first experiments with self-portraiture. year: 2019 condition: new librarian's note: petra collins’ work is a sacred text for the digital girlhood era. her lens captures the raw, pastel-hued grit of coming-of-age, blending hyper-femininity with subcultural vulnerability. a pivotal document of the tumblr-era aesthetic and the female gaze. straight from the rat hole 2 u.
[the ultimate face card test / 00s energy] for the sixth edition of baron, artist petra collins flips the camera lens onto herself... more specifically into herself. uninhibited, gross, disjointed, and confusing, collins places us in a world filled with perverse personal thoughts and lucid landscapes.with the book’s hungarian title miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? collins asks us: why be you, when you can be me? collins uses the camera as the third person. it captures historical truths (such as a time and place) and an emotional reality with a complicated relationship to intention and perception. working with the sculptor sarah sitkin, collins creates moulds of her body as well as her sisters to gain ownership, in a world where our bodies live in multiple realities. this new body of work features collins first experiments with self-portraiture. year: 2019 condition: new librarian's note: petra collins’ work is a sacred text for the digital girlhood era. her lens captures the raw, pastel-hued grit of coming-of-age, blending hyper-femininity with subcultural vulnerability. a pivotal document of the tumblr-era aesthetic and the female gaze. straight from the rat hole 2 u.