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Dutch artist Jacqueline Hassink has received critical acclaim for her books and exhibitions that deal conceptually with issues of power and social relations. Aperture first published a deluxe edition of the artist’s work, Car Girls, limited to 1,500 copies, which received attention around the world. By popular demand, we are pleased to issue this instant classic in a handy, adorable "travel-size." Car Girls, photographs by Jacqueline Hassink, essay by Tim Dant, the "travel-size" edition is a subversively fun and idiosyncratic look at the car industry from the point of view of the women who, internationally, play an integral role at the elaborately staged, male-dominated trade shows that pervade the auto industry. Car Girls is a body of work that Hassink created over five years, photographing major car shows in seven cities on three continents, including New York, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, Detroit, and Shanghai. Every year, companies present their latest cars the same way: with the help of beautiful young female models-cum-performers hired to represent particular car brands and the corporate images of their employers in a very distinctive way. Hassink is particularly interested in how differing cultural values and feminine ideals are exploited in various parts of the world to define corporate identity. As Francine Prose writes in the accompanying text, "... Hassink's Car Girls have the power to make us rethink the association between auto and eros as if it had never occurred to us, and to see it newly in all its sheer outrageous strangeness." Both editions of Car Girls were designed by the award-winning Irma Boom. JACQUELINE HASSINK (born in Enschede, the Netherlands, 1966]has published extensively, including The Table of Power (1996), Mindscapes (2003), The Power Book (2007), and Domains of Influence (2008). Her work has been shown extensively at various international venues, and her photographs are in the collections of the Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among other institutions. Hassink is a visiting professor in a number of programs, including the postgraduate photography program at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, and at the Visual and Environmental Studies program at Harvard. She is represented by Cohen Amador Gallery, New York. TIM DANT (essay) is a reader in sociology at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Materiality and Culture (2005), as well as numerous books and articles on the subject. From 2002 until 2005 he was involved in major research on car culture. |
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