{"product_id":"lydia-panas-sleeping-beauty-9781735762920","title":"Lydia Panas: Sleeping Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePortraits of women and girls intertwined with the photographer's gaze, in a rare subversion of photography's power relations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents award-winning Pennsylvania-based photographer Lydia Panas' (born 1958) much-praised series of mesmerizing color portraits of reclining women and girls. In an interesting reversal of roles, the artist's and models' gazes are intertwined, incorporating the viewer as participant in an often uncomfortable connection. Critics and curators have praised the work for Panas' artistic and technical mastery, and all have noted and examined the powerfully affecting gaze of her subjects. Panas notes: \"While my subjects do in actuality turn their gaze towards me, it's as if at times I turn the camera onto myself, both in the present and back in time.\" In \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, her subjects lie down, a metaphor for the position girls and women have been placed in historically. But they look out with self-awareness, in a way that implies a lack of complicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mw Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781735762920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112","brand":"Lydia Panas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41334401826997,"sku":"9781735762920","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e4d8c591-6d77-4c28-b1ac-5383fff54fb9.jpg?v=1636432484","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lydia-panas-sleeping-beauty-9781735762920","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}