Jacqueline Hassink: Car Girls
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It takes an artist with the astute eye of Holland’s Jacqueline Hassink to capture the actual oddness of the use of female models to sell cars. Hassink has already been acclaimed for books and exhibitions addressing issues of power and social relations, and “Car Girls” is a supreme instance of these explorations–a body of work…
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 160
Publication date: 2009-03-01
Measurements: 11.3 x 13.5 x 0.9 inches
ISBN: 9781597110976
Jacqueline Hassink’s books include The Table of Power (1996), Mindscapes (2003), The Power Book (2007), and Tables of Power Vol. II (2011). Her photographs have been shown worldwide, and are in the collections of the Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among other institutions. A visiting professor in the postgraduate photography program at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, and the Visual and Environmental Studies program at Harvard, she is represented by Benrubi Gallery, New York.
Tim Dant is a reader in sociology at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Materiality and Culture (2005), as well as numerous books and articles on the subject. From 2002 until 2005 he was involved in major research on car culture.