Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing the transgender community for over 30 years. Through her artistic practice she has been a pioneering force in gender consciousness. In Transgender USA, more than three decades of Allen’s intimate portraits of transgender peoples living in the United States are united into one exhibition.
Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing the transgender community for over 30 years. Through her artistic practice, she has been a pioneering force in gender consciousness, contributing to numerous cultural and academic publications about gender variance and lecturing throughout the globe. Mariette’s life’s work is being archived by Duke University's Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's Studies. In addition to her work with gender, Mariette’s background as a painter frequently leads her to photographic investigations of color, space, and cultural juxtapositions such as east/west, old/new, handmade/manufactured.
Thank you to Museo Digital Fine Art for supplying the photographic paper for the exhibition, and also thank you to our exhibition partner Forum for Scholars and Publics for helping us host the panel discussion 'Archiving LGBTQ+ Lives'
[Thumbnail photo: Michelle and Betty Ann at a beauty salon during the Fantasia Fair Conference, Provincetown, MA, 1981.]
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