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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
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<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.lindseybeal.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lindseybeal.com</a></p>
Medium
photography
Location
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Providence
Rhode Island
USA
Artist Statement
<p class="p1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><i>Reproduction(s)</i></strong></span> is a comprehensive taxonomy of contraceptive methods that uses replication and pattern to create wallpaper panels. Turning contraceptives into wallpaper allows for everyday exposure to each method. With repeated exposure comes familiarity and eventually comfort. With comfort comes use and dialogue—dialogue between partners, between parents and children, between schools and students.</p>
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<p class="p3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><i>Parturition</i></strong></span> is a photographic archive and written history of obstetric and gynecological tools: their appearance, development, and how they have or have not changed.</p>
<p class="p4">Obstetrical and gynecological history is full of contradictions and complications.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Medical history has been fraught with racism and sexism—tools were often forcibly tested on the poor, the enslaved, and sex workers. Conversely, without these improved tools, many women would have had to deliver unwanted pregnancies or died in childbirth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On the one hand, male doctors interceded into the female realm of midwifery and delivery; on the other hand, doctors saved the lives of women and infants in delivery.</p>
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<p class="p4">When I set out to photograph these items in various medical libraries, I expected to find gruesome tools; instead, I often found early forms of implements still in use today such as forceps and speculums.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some were created pre-germ theory and used materials such as leather, wood, horn or ivory.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Others more closely resemble and use materials familiar to us today. </p>
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<p class="p3">By photographing the tools digitally and printing them to replicate twentieth century glass educational slides, I intend to connect historical uses and developments with contemporary tools and practices.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This allows us to examine how women's reproductive health and medicine evolved, yet still remains the same.</p>
Topic
education
labor & delivery
objects
women’s health
women
techonology
repetition
reproduction
research
obstetrics and gynecology
pregnancy
photography
wallpaper
educational slides
contraceptives
birth control
Exhibitions
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STUMP at Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Past as Present (solo show) at the Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Progressions (solo show) at Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unveiled at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO</a>
Dublin Core
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Title
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Lindsey Beal
photography
Providence
Rhode Island
USA