Resemblance: Photographs by Anna Gaskell
This book has been published by the Addison Gallery and
it accompanies the exhibition by Anna Gaskell. Most of
the photographs in Resemblance were created duringAnna
Gaskell's visits to Phillips Academy as the Addison
Gallery's Edward E. Elson artist-in-residence. The
photographs have been inspired by literary sources such
as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Villiers de l'Isle Adam's
"Tomorrow's Eve," and E.T.A. Hoffmann's
"The Sandman," resemblance offers the
possibility of creating one's history. Dressed in white
lab coats, Phillips Academy female students are cast by
Gaskell as young technicians attempting to create an
"ideal person." Their goal is to use their own
hands to build the very person who made them. resemblance
explores issues of creating and/or recreating one's
maker, one's antecedent, and therefore one's past.
According to Gaskell's narrative, the more ideal their
creator, the closer to perfection the young girls will
become.
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