Narrator

Curatorial Assistant, Lucy Gallun

Lucy Gallun

This series was made in a Cinemascope format, as if each of these heroines are up there on the screen. The camera captures the subject in a vulnerable position, from above. In this case the subject is prone on the floor. But she’s come up a little bit as if she sees something off the frame that she’s scared of. She’s curled around, so we see her back, and we see the terrified look on her face.

The light is hitting her face and shoulders, and there’s this darkness around her, as if she’s the heroine in a horror movie. We don’t get a pin-up girl. Unlike a typical centerfold she’s cropped so that we don’t even see her whole head, her whole body.