Lindsey Beal
Using open source imagery from the Library of Congress, I printed select images from each wave of the feminist movement in the anthotype process, using beets as an emulsion. Each movement is printed in the same bright pink: the suffragettes marching for the right to vote, the second wave marching for the passage of the equal rights amendment, the inaugural Women’s March, and finally a blank coated sheet of paper, waiting for the next movement to be documented and printed on its surface. The prints are framed and housed in a black box, both protecting the fugitive prints from the light, while also referencing the ballot box.
Lindsey Beal is a photo-based artist in Providence, Rhode Island where she teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and Massachusetts College of Art & Design. She is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.
Inspired by the way contemporary American society views women, she investigates how women lived in the past, drawing parallels and contrasts between women's lives then and now. Both through presentation and subject matter, she connects the viewer to the past and how it reflects today’s political and social culture. She connects her imagery to photographic history, how it was practiced, developed and presented by early photographers.
Lindsey’s work was featured on the New York Times Lens Blog, Slate France, BBC Mundo, and New Scientist, and published in various textbooks and periodicals. She has shown at national museums, galleries & universities, including a recent solo show at the Vermont Center for Photography. She was a Finalist for Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 200 in 2016 & 2018 and recently received a RISD Faculty Development Grant for her new work.
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