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In 1975, while driving her car in Manhattan, Marcia Resnick became embroiled in a car accident and her entire life flashed before her. When she awoke in the hospital, she began to think about all of the events which led to her being there. She began to write ideas and draw pictures considering her life thus far, in preparation for creating a new book. In 1978, her poignant and ironic, autobiographical book of staged photographs about female adolescence, Re-visions, was first published by The Coach House Press in Toronto. Re-visions is a collection of revisualizations of memories, often revised to augment the irony and humor of the human condition. The words and pictures are equally important; they feed off each other working in concert or in discord to form the narrative. Andy Warhol called it “Bad,” and according to Allen Ginsberg it was “Sharp…for a girl. ” Now, 41 years later, longtime friend Lydia Lunch pays homage to the second edition of Re-visions: “A sweet twist which whispers in mysterious tones predicting the delicious perversion of a budding adolescence. ”

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Re-Visions is an important photobook by a woman photographer that deserves to be more consistently included with other feminist photography classics from the 1970s.--Olga Yatskevich Collector Daily Re-visions, comprises staged photographs of a female adolescence, and falls somewhere between fiction and reality.--Belle Hutton AnOther Resnick's photographic portraits explore fame, sexuality and individual style.--Aline Smithson Lenscratch Resnick's images all have the confessional feeling of self portraiture... They are conceptual, they are literary fictions, all done with a style of make-shift / thrift store theatricality that just seems inventive and charming.--Timothy Archibald Re-visions dares to be perverse in this age of rules and enforced correctness...[Resnick's] thoughts reveal the restlessness of budding adolescence and the curiosity and lustfulness that, especially in that era, were reserved for boys.--Scott Stiffler Chelsea Community News Resnick began to revisualise her memories, combining text and image to augment the irony and humor of the experience of growing up as a woman.--Marigold Warner British Journal of Photography [A] historically significant and groundbreaking photobook by a woman.--Olga Yatskevich Lensculture

Re-Visions is an important photobook by a woman photographer that deserves to be more consistently included with other feminist photography classics from the 1970s.--Olga Yatskevich Collector Daily Re-visions dares to be perverse in this age of rules and enforced correctness...[Resnick's] thoughts reveal the restlessness of budding adolescence and the curiosity and lustfulness that, especially in that era, were reserved for boys.--Scott Stiffler Chelsea Community News Re-visions, comprises staged photographs of a female adolescence, and falls somewhere between fiction and reality.--Belle Hutton AnOther Resnick's photographic portraits explore fame, sexuality and individual style.--Aline Smithson Lenscratch Resnick began to revisualise her memories, combining text and image to augment the irony and humor of the experience of growing up as a woman.--Marigold Warner British Journal of Photography Resnick's images all have the confessional feeling of self portraiture... They are conceptual, they are literary fictions, all done with a style of make-shift / thrift store theatricality that just seems inventive and charming.--Timothy Archibald

Re-visions dares to be perverse in this age of rules and enforced correctness...[Resnick's] thoughts reveal the restlessness of budding adolescence and the curiosity and lustfulness that, especially in that era, were reserved for boys.--Scott Stiffler Chelsea Community News Resnick's photographic portraits explore fame, sexuality and individual style.--Aline Smithson Lenscratch Resnick's images all have the confessional feeling of self portraiture... They are conceptual, they are literary fictions, all done with a style of make-shift / thrift store theatricality that just seems inventive and charming.--Timothy Archibald Re-Visions is an important photobook by a woman photographer that deserves to be more consistently included with other feminist photography classics from the 1970s.--Olga Yatskevich Collector Daily Re-visions, comprises staged photographs of a female adolescence, and falls somewhere between fiction and reality.--Belle Hutton AnOther Resnick began to revisualise her memories, combining text and image to augment the irony and humor of the experience of growing up as a woman.--Marigold Warner British Journal of Photography

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