“American Minor still #4″, 2008 Charlie White

A little while back I linked to some new work by Charlie White over at FA Projects . Well, Charlie was nice enough to email me to let you know that his site now has samples of that project (photographs, a film, and animations) titled “The Girl Studies” . More info here (note: I’ve linked Loock through Google Translate because it’s in German so please mind the grammar).


exhibition view at Loock Gallery

Along with this series JRP has published a book titled “American Minor” which delves deeper into Whites investigation of the American Teen.






More from JRP:

The photographs of Los Angeles-based artist Charlie White (*1972) explore the complex social and psychological realities of American culture. "American Minor" delves into an important subtext of White’s work: the American teen.

By cataloguing studio archives, film stills, animation stills, scripts, and photographs, the book highlights the artist’s investigations into the representation of the American teen girl. Through images culled from the artist’s two-year study of an ex-urban teenager, archives of magazine covers featuring iconic blonde models, stills from his first 35 mm film, and his photographic comparative study of teens and transgenders, "American Minor" presents White’s ongoing and never-before-seen studies of the American teen subject as image and idea. This book sheds new light on the artist’s oeuvre within the context of his new work in film, animation, and cultural archiving.

Here are a few samples from “American Minor”:

For more info on “American Minor” please visit JRP .

Thanks Charlie!

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