The bias of the portrait by Jean-Paul Gavard Perret
For Betty Tompkins there are fish without mothers and seas without fish. Skinny girls look like nails. They are driven in by what makes men crazy. They don’t like singers but they are suspicious of the sex of women whose photographs by Betty Tompkins were censored for a long time in the USA.
Here she presents these incendiary photographs (at least in theory) which date from 1990 to 2024 to break certain taboos. She was not looking for the effect of an erotic or pornographic vision but pursued a form of “simplicity” whose strength of such evidence had great difficulty to be accepted.
