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Louise Bourgeois French-American, artist and her sculpture “Fillette”, 1982. Photo by RoBert Mapplethorpe.
The intention of the photo shoot was to produce a portrait for her exhibition at MOMA. The museum used the shot for her catalogue cover, but chopped it to a head shot, eliminating the phallic “Fillette”. The selective cropping eliminated the erotic humor of the photo and as the artist stated herself “The glint in my eye refers to the thing I am carrying, but the cut it. They cut it because the museum was so prudish” (Cited in Nixon 2005, pg 73.)
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Louise Bourgeois French-American, artist and her sculpture “Fillette”, 1982. Photo by RoBert Mapplethorpe.
The intention of the photo shoot was to produce a portrait for her exhibition at MOMA. The museum used the shot for her catalogue cover, but chopped it to a head shot, eliminating the phallic “Fillette”. The selective cropping eliminated the erotic humor of the photo and as the artist stated herself “The glint in my eye refers to the thing I am carrying, but the cut it. They cut it because the museum was so prudish” (Cited in Nixon 2005, pg 73.)
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