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Creamy Psychology
Creamy Psychology

Creamy Psychology

PHOTOGRAPHY

260 Pages, 7 x 9.25

Formats: Cloth

Cloth, $44.99 (US $44.99) (CA $53.99)

Publication Date: October 2015

ISBN 9780864739773

Rights: WOR X NZ

Te Herenga Waka University Press (Oct 2015)
Victoria University Press

Price: $44.99
 
 

Overview

Creamy Psychology surveys Yvonne Todd's work since the late 1990s, including her recent Gilbert Melrose project and her latest photographic series Ethical Minorities (Vegans). It contains new essays by Todd herself, Robert Leonard, Misha Kavka, Claire Regnault, Megan Dunn, and Anthony Byrt. It also contains an archival section with earlier essays, including key pieces by Leonard, Dunn, Justin Paton, and Justin Clemens. Comprehensively illustrated, Creamy Psychology is the new go-to book on Yvonne Todd.

Author Biography

Twelve years ago, a young Auckland photographer, Yvonne Todd, became the surprise winner of the first Walters Award.  Todd is best known for her portraits of women, her mostly invented female 'characters'. These portraits are typically contrived, and are nostalgically styled and art directed, using costumes, wigs, makeup, and false teeth. Many of Todd's characters seem to suffer from some soap-operatic malaise, explicit or implicit. They include cosmeticians, the disabled, modest Christians, anorexics, cult members, showgirls and tragic heiresses. Todd incorporates herself into their world, being one of her own favorite models. Her work has a complex relation with feminism.