Marcel Mariën’s 'Woman Ajar'. A case of minor photography?

Abstract (E): This paper examines Woman Ajar (1985), a late, largely forgotten photo book by Marcel Mariën, one of the key figures of Belgian post war surrealism. Representing the female body as fragmented and alienated by small objects, Mariën’s photographs balance between the private (amateurish) and the public (professional) and explores the fragile border between art and pornography. In addition, there is a sense of belatedness in them, which makes them particularly hard to label. This paper proposes the concept of minor photography, borrowed from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concep... Mehr ...