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Artist | Photographs by April Dawn Alison / Courtesy SFMOMA & MACK |
PUBLISHER | MACK BOOKS |
Made over the course of some thirty years starting in the 70ies, the photographs depict the many faces of April Dawn Alison, the female persona of an Oakland, California-based photographer who lived in the world as a man – Alan Schaefer. This previously unseen body of self-portraits, which was given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2017, begins tentatively in 1970s in black-and-white, and evolves in the 80s into an exuberant,...