Opening Night: Photographing Myself

Join us for the opening reception of "Photographing Myself: Bunny Yeager
[in Dialogue with Aldeide Delgado, Naomi Fisher, and Val Souza]."
About this Event

Photographing Myself: Bunny Yeager [in Dialogue with Aldeide Delgado, Naomi Fisher, and Val Souza] presents a feminist intervention by curator Aldeide Delgado into How I Photograph Myself (1964), a landmark photobook by pioneering Miami-based photographer Bunny Yeager (1929–2014).

Yeager began her career as a pin-up model before establishing herself as a photographer in the 1950s. Moving across photography, modeling, writing, filmmaking, and fashion, she became one of the most influential figures in American photography of the 1950s and 1960s.

In How I Photograph Myself, Yeager turned the camera toward herself, staging her image through clothing, makeup, hairstyles, poses, props, and locations. Taking the book as its point of departure, the exhibition presents selected and intervened fragments from the publication, contextualizing Yeager’s photoperformative practice through her own voice and reconsidering her legacy through questions of agency, self-representation, the male gaze, and female spectatorship.

Yeager’s work enters into dialogue with contemporary artists Naomi Fisher and Val Souza, whose practices explore desire, feminism, performance, the body, and visual culture. The exhibition presents rarely seen work by Miami-based Fisher and marks the first presentation of Brazilian artist Val Souza’s work in the United States.

Join us for Opening Night, Saturday, September 19, from 6–9 PM, and experience an intergenerational conversation about women taking control of the camera and their own image.

Event schedule:

6:00 pm | Opening

7:00 pm | Curator's tour

Enjoy music and light refreshments throughout the evening.

Content Advisory: The exhibition contains nudity. Viewer discretion is advised.