- Anthony Goicolea
Anthony Goicolea (born 1971) is a New York-based fine art photographer, born in
Atlanta, Georgia .Goicolea's photographs frequently deal with issues of
androgyny ,homosexuality , andchild sexuality . Goicolea,Cuban-American andgay , was educated at theUniversity of Georgia and studied painting, photography, and sculpture at that institution. He holds an MFA in fine arts from the Pratt Institute. He made his debut in 1999, and now shows work with Postmasters gallery in New York and Aurel Scheibler in Berlin, Germany.In 2005, he received the BMW-Award for Photography.
Some of his work features photographs of "pre- to barely pubescent boys" ("Art in America", Dec, 2001) in elaborately staged tableau settings, commonly showing multiple boys wearing traditional
private school uniforms either engaged in school-life or recreation after school — but with often transgressive and erotic twists in their activities. Of great interest in these compositions is the fact that Goicolea "himself" portrays all of the boys in his photographs through the astute use of costumes, wigs, make-up, and post-production editing via the softwareAdobe Photoshop ; "always looking uncannily like a boy on the edge of puberty" ("The Advocate", August 14, 2001). Therefore, despite having numerous figures in them, Goicolea's photographs are actually very complex large-scale self-portraits, and are always done in a flawlessly realist manner.The pioneering fine-art photographer
Cindy Sherman is an apparent influence on Goicolea's work, given her own extensive use of self-portraits and emphasis on sexually-charged narrative topics. Sherman and Goicolea have also had several joint exhibitions. His work can been strongly compared to similar manipulated and/or staged art photography featuring children and adolescents, such as that ofBernard Faucon ,Loretta Lux , andJustine Kurland .Recently, Goicolea has also been producing and exhibiting his drawings, which follow much of the same subject matter as his photographs. He has also published several books.
Further reading
* "Anthony Goicolea". Twin Palms, 2003. (Book)
* P.B. Franklin, A. Goicolea. "Boyology". "GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies" (2001).External links
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/02/1070127405877.html?from=storyrhs Review of 2003 exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Photography (Australia)]
* [http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2002/06/anthony_goicole.php 2002 exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Photography (US)]
* [http://www.anthonygoicolea.com/ AnthonyGoicolea.com]
* [http://www.aurelscheibler.com/ AurelScheibler.com]
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