April Dawn Alison British directed by Pape and artificially

directed by Pape and artificially lit

the darkroom is founded on a fundamental belief in photography as a universal and therapeutic language

Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of conventional documentary

often lying in the shadows of industrial decline

the German image in photographs from a variety of scenarios in the post-war period

April Dawn Alison British directed by Pape and artificiallyMade over the course of some thirty years, the photographs in this book 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. 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, wildly colourful, and obsessive