PHOTOGRAPHS

 

S.A. Bachman’s photographs (1984-1996) investigate how cultural ideologies intersect with the realities of women's lives.  In her photomontages, books and billboards themes of identity coexist with images of suburbanization and social rituals to reveal sexism, racism and conformity.  By manipulating popular media representations of women, Bachman’s photographs turn the obviously offending, but seemingly innocent, image against itself.  Significantly, while women's experience is often minimized, Bachman presents her explorations in a monumental scale.  Through a confluence of image appropriation and language, she interrogates the correspondence between lived experience and represented reality.