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Alexis Hunter
Born in 1948, Auckland, New Zealand
Died in 2014
Overview
Alexis Hunter used photography as a means of weaponizing feminist theory, critiquing and subverting the objectification of the female body and radically reappropriating it as a site for political activism. Hunter often depicted male bodies in the same manner as sexist depictions of women in advertising and media in the 1970s, and pioneered a technique of photographic sequential narrative, using photographs and text to make radical, provocative storyboards. Through gender roleplay and the use of ...Read more
Selected artworks
Alexis Hunter
Tits and Bums, 1986
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To Silent Women (Alone We Failed), 1981
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Domestic Warfare, 1979 - 2012
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Dialogue with a Rapist, 1978
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The Marxist Wife (still does the housewife), 1978 - 2005
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Self portrait, 1977
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Approach to Fear: Masculinisation of Society Exorcise, 1977
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Approach to Fear: Violence Identity with Aggressor, 1976
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Sexual Warfare, 1975
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The models Revenge I, 1974
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The models Revenge III, 1974
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The models Revenge II, 1974
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Approach to Fear: Voyeurism, 1973 - 2011
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Alexis Hunter
Sexual Warfare, 1973
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Alexis Hunter
The Media, 1968
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Suffragette, 1968
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