Martin Guggisberg - Miss Primary Information and gender conflict

and gender conflict

some short stories

The artist has collaged this material into a moving narrative that establishes a conversation with images of her own work and ephemera

Like the camera

Christiane Seiffert

Martin Guggisberg - Miss Primary Information and gender conflictIn Miss, the Swiss photographer Martin Guggisberg depicts the participants at beauty contests, shows them backstage, on stage, but also looks at the experts, the jury and at us, the onlookers. These photographs taken between 2006 and 2011 are relentless contemporary documents, which illustrate the miss cult and its iconography at their exceeded zenith and in which over and over, completely unexpected, grace and elegance bedazzle. Miss Russian