Security by Julia, XXXXIII
Julia Scher
with
Bristol Studios
and Lite Brite Matt Dilling and Frank Kerrigan
Courtesy the artist and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
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.