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Laura Aguilar (born San Gabriel, California, 1959) is an American photographer. Her work focuses on the experiences of often marginalized people such as women of color, lesbians, and women of size, as well as the perception of her own body.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=aguilar-laura-cr.xml )〕 Aguilar is largely self-taught, though she did study at East Los Angeles Community College and participated in The Friends of Photography Workshop and Santa Fe Photographic Workshop.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=aguilar-laura-cr.xml )〕 Her work has been in the 1993 Venice Biennial, Italy; the Los Angeles City Hall Bridge Gallery, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and the Los Angeles Photography Center, Women's Center Gallery at the University of California in Santa Barbara and elsewhere. Her work challenges contemporary social constructs of beauty, focusing in large part on lesbian women of color. She often uses self-portraiture to help her come to terms with her own body as she challenges societal norms of sexuality, class, gender, and race. == Work == Aguilar's work focuses on portraiture that captures the identities and lives of those marginalized by American culture, specifically Latina lesbians, people of color, and the obese. Chon A. Noriega, director of the Chicano Studies Research Center at University of California Los Angeles Center, notes that Aguilar's photography is particularly notable as: Aguilar collaborates with subjects who are her peers so that her works is not about power differentials between photographer and subject as is often, if implicitly the case with ... the social documentary tradition itself.Her more recent self-portraits navigate her personal intersection of identities as Latina, lesbian, dyslexic, and obese. "My photography has always provided me with an opportunity to open myself up and see the world around me," Aguilar writes. "And most of all, photography makes me look within." Critics and scholars closely identify Aguilar's work with Chicana feminism. In his 2013 paper on Chicana aesthetics, Daniel Perez writes: Aguilar consciously moves away from the societally normative images of Chicana female bodies and disassociates them from male-centered nostalgia or idealizations. The theme of reclaiming and reconfiguring Chicana female bodies reflects the influences of feminist critiques by women of color that move beyond identifying sexist and heterosexist perspective that project Chicana feminist aesthetics.Aguilar tries to "provide a better understanding" of the Latina and lesbian experience by depicting role models that "break negative stereotypes and help develop a better bridge of understanding."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Aguilar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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