{"product_id":"woman-in-slip-1976-77","title":"Jo Ann Callis: Woman in Slip, 1976–77","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman in Slip\u003c\/em\u003e (1976–77) was published in \u003cem\u003eOther Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), the first comprehensive book of Jo Ann Callis’s seductive 1970s photographs. \u003cem\u003eOther Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e presents psychologically weighty, seductive, and astutely staged images. Working with color film, Callis mastered the ability to illustrate opposing emotions in one frame. By cropping out the subject’s head, the image \u003cem\u003eWoman in Slip\u003c\/em\u003e focuses powerfully on a moment where the push and pull of beauty and angst hold center stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancine Prose articulates this focal point in her introduction to the book, where she writes, “These pictures are not only about sex but about the limits and the edges of photography, its power to get up in our faces. They ask whether it is possible to photograph a thought—whether an image can represent something simultaneously sensual and cerebral.” It is also Callis’s visual expertise and decision-making—her green, lilac, and fleshy hues, all seemingly from the same palette—that seduce the viewer to dive deeply into the photograph and to contemplate the complexity of what they see. Since the 1960s, Callis has been circling these complex and often opposing emotions in photographs that are at once aesthetic and discomfiting, delicate and raw, mysterious and thoughtful. The tension in her color photographs is one of her unique contributions to the history of the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514101010566,"sku":"LB049","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB049-1_c7e8226e-7969-441d-8ad1-46c1f6562dfe.jpg?v=1763776068","url":"https:\/\/store.aperture.org\/products\/woman-in-slip-1976-77","provider":"Aperture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}