Come Up and See Me Sometime

Collage, decals
Ongoing series

Hubby’s photo collage series Come Up and See Me Sometime debuted at Paris Photo LA solo booth presentation by Klowden Mann. The work uses images from the golden age of Hollywood as their starting point, reconfigures them, and titles the new figures with quotes by the famous female stars of old Hollywood they resemble.

Hubby on the series:

I used Mae West as the muse for the work due to her sharp wit, bawdy honesty, and bombastic glamor. All of the works are titled with quotes by the famous female stars of Paramount’s screen. By using hair-do upon hair-do and suit upon gown I created ‘glamorousities', or ‘glamonsters' that resonate to me, the fixings, the facade, but also the allure and dreaminess of fame. It’s about the 'gown' of fame that seems so effortlessly draped on these seemingly blemish-less beings and the siren song of that era that is photographically and filmicly preserved, but can never be relived. They are also about the strong females that fought for their place in the male dominated 'producership' of their time, the suits that backed the stars and the handshakes that sealed the deals.

More from the series, including installation views: Paris Photo LA.