AC-91-01 , 1991, 73 x 52"
AC-91-02, 1991, 78 x 52"
AC-91-03, 1991, 79 x 52"
AC-91-04, 1991, 73 x 52"
AC-91-05, 1991, 74 x 52"
AC-91-06, 1991, 52" x 6'
AC-91-07, 1991, 86 x 52"
AC-91-08, 1991, 80 x 52"
AC-92-01, 1992, 78 x 52"
AC-92-02, 1992, 78 x 52"
AC-92-03, 1992, 79 x 52"
AC-92-04, 1992, 86 x 52"
AC-92-05, 1992, 74 x 52"
AC-92-06, 1992, 84 x 52"
AC-92-07, 1992, 81 x 52"
AC-92-09, 1992, 85 x 52"
AC-92-10, 1992, 77 x 52"
AC-92-11, 1992, 86 x 52"
AC-92-12, 1992, 72 x 52"
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Figure Model Series 1991- 1992
Hayden photographed nude older figure models 60 to 84 years old in her studio. The models were professionals actively working in art schools in New York City, Boston, Chicago and Western Massachusetts.
"I started photographing professional art models age 60 and over in 1991 when I was 41 years old. I wanted to imagine a viable future and challenge beauty being associated only with youth. I made large 7 foot silver gelatin prints, applying the chemistry with mops and not completely fixing areas of the print so it would continue to oxidize and change, referring to the natural condition of the human body.”
From antiquity to the present, through artistic representation we have amassed an image of our ideal selves. Her intention was to challenge these culturally sanctioned ideals of beauty/youth and image. As professional image-makers, the models and Hayden actively created an “image”. Informed by their own histories as image-makers and the immediacy of impending mortalities, they constructed a projection of the idealized pose altered by reality.
In 1992, Hayden received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, in 1993 a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Fellowship and in 1994 a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for these photographs.
Unique silver gelatin photographs, printed by the artist 1990’s.
Print size vary from 73” x 52” to 86 “ x 52 “
Hayden is now 71 years old, eleven years older than the age she asked that her models to be for The Figure Model Series (1991- 96).