Vanessa, Pista de Baile de la discoteca ‘Eduardo’s’ (Vanessa, dance floor from the club ‘Eduardo’s’)
- Title:
- Vanessa, Pista de Baile de la discoteca ‘Eduardo’s’ (Vanessa, dance floor from the club ‘Eduardo’s’)
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Inequality and legacies of discrimination
- Creator:
- Margolles, Teresa
- Creation Date:
- 2016
- ID Number:
- 2020.003.002
- File Name:
- 2020.003.002.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- inkjet prints
- Subject:
- Transgender sex workers
Sex work in Mexico
gender-based violence - Measurement:
- 40.005 x 60.0075 (Image) (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Long shot centered on a woman with long black hair and brown skin wearing a black-an- white tube dress and kitten heels standing on a glassy patch of aqua tiles on the floor of an otherwise demolished building. She is posed facing the left with her right hand up in front of her shoulder. The buildings around her are beige, open to the sky, with small piles of rubble around and tall grass behind her. The sky above is deep blue.
- Notes:
- Edition 5/6 + 1 A/P
"Transgender sex worker standing on the dance floor of a demolished club in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico" - James Cohan - Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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