Debbie Grossman, Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery 2010
This series of works entitled My Pie Town, is an amazing re-imagination of Russell Lee’s collection of images, taken on behalf of the United States Farm Security Administration in 1940. Lee’s documentary work - of life in PieTown, New Mexico - is typical of work sponsored by the FSA in Depression-era America. Documentary, mythologizing, nostalgic - an attempt to capture small, rural communitites whose ‘innocent’ way of life was under threat (from financial crisis, from the lure of the city etc).
Grossman, oddly enough, shares a similar concern to Lee, 70 years later - a nostalgic longing for community - but has taken Lee’s work and mutated it for nefarious lesbian purposes. ….
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Debbie Grossman Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery, 2010 From the series My Pie...