Department
store photo booths represent the mechanization of portraiture: the automatic camera replaces the
human artist. In Security by Julia XXXXIII the mechanical artist is made sinister and invasive, photographing the subject from
multiple unflattering and unacceptable
viewpoints and displaying these images to the passing audience outside of the booth.
Julia Scher
with Bristol Studios and Lite Brite;
Matt Dilling and Frank Kerrigan.
Courtesy the artist and Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York