{"id":14217,"date":"2020-12-01T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/?post_type=artists_ui&#038;p=14217"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:44:18","slug":"hershman-photography","status":"publish","type":"artists_ui","link":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"dam-custom-grid dam-custom-grid--cols-2\" style=\"--dam-grid-gap:16px;\"><figure class=\"dam-custom-grid__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Reach-Phantom-Limb-449x630-hershman.jpg\" class=\"dam-custom-grid__link\" data-lightbox=\"dam-custom-grid\" title=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Phantom Limb, Reach. B\/w photograph, 101.6 x 76.2 cm. 1986.\" data-title=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Phantom Limb, Reach. B\/w photograph, 101.6 x 76.2 cm. 1986.\" data-caption=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Phantom Limb, Reach. B\/w photograph, 101.6 x 76.2 cm. 1986.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Reach-Phantom-Limb-449x630-hershman.jpg\" class=\"dam-custom-grid__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Reach-Phantom-Limb-449x630-hershman.jpg 449w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Reach-Phantom-Limb-449x630-hershman-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Reach-Phantom-Limb-449x630-hershman-406x570.jpg 406w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Reach-Phantom-Limb-449x630-hershman-356x500.jpg 356w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Reach-Phantom-Limb-449x630-hershman-285x400.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figure class=\"dam-custom-grid__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman.jpg\" class=\"dam-custom-grid__link\" data-lightbox=\"dam-custom-grid\" title=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cyborg 9. Digital Archive Print. 30\u201d x 30\u201d. 2000.\n\" data-title=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cyborg 9. Digital Archive Print. 30\u201d x 30\u201d. 2000.\n\" data-caption=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cyborg 9. Digital Archive Print. 30\u201d x 30\u201d. 2000.\n\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1932\" src=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman.jpg\" class=\"dam-custom-grid__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman-1024x989.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman-768x742.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman-1536x1484.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman-590x570.jpg 590w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman-500x483.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman-550x531.jpg 550w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3-cyborg-9-hershman-400x386.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figure class=\"dam-custom-grid__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman.jpg\" class=\"dam-custom-grid__link\" data-lightbox=\"dam-custom-grid\" title=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Digital Venus # 1: after Titian. Iris print. 19 x 24 in \/ 48.3 x 61 cm. 1996.\" data-title=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Digital Venus # 1: after Titian. Iris print. 19 x 24 in \/ 48.3 x 61 cm. 1996.\" data-caption=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Digital Venus # 1: after Titian. Iris print. 19 x 24 in \/ 48.3 x 61 cm. 1996.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman.jpg\" class=\"dam-custom-grid__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman-855x570.jpg 855w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG0029_2-hershman-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figure class=\"dam-custom-grid__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman.jpg\" class=\"dam-custom-grid__link\" data-lightbox=\"dam-custom-grid\" title=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Water Women Series. 1985-1994.\" data-title=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Water Women Series. 1985-1994.\" data-caption=\"Lynn Hershman Leeson, Water Women Series. 1985-1994.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1054\" src=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman.jpg\" class=\"dam-custom-grid__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman-1536x809.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman-1082x570.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman-500x264.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman-550x290.jpg 550w, https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/May14-2EDITED-Twisted-Gravity_discussion_04212020-2-2-hershman-400x211.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;fade-up&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Photography (1984-2004)&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; font_size=&#8221;16&#8243; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;600&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wbp_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wbp_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wbp_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wbp_wrapper\">\n<p>Lynn Hershman Leeson has frequently worked with photography, creating collages in analog and digital media. These compositions usually address subjects such as identity, subjectivity, seduction, and the body, in relation to technology and archetypal images of women. In the series <em>Phantom Limb<\/em> (1985-86) she merges female bodies and machines, while <em>Hero Sandwich <\/em>(1988) confronts publicity photographs of male and female celebrities, fused by printing layered negatives. She has later created the series <em>Cyborgs<\/em> (1996), images portraying cybernetic organisms or \u201ccyborgs,\u201d as half-human, robotic femme fatales; and <em>Water Women<\/em> (2004), which explore the fragile nature of life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>More works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-shadow-stalker\/\">Shadow Stalker (2019-2021)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-vertighost\/\">Vertighost (2017)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-infinity-engine\/\">The Infinity Engine (2014)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-ai\/\">Artificial Intelligence (1998-2004)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-net-works\/\">Net works (1996-2012)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-films\/\">Films (1984-2017)<\/a><br \/>\nPhotography (1984-2004)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-interactivity\/\">Interactivity (1984-1994)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-roberta-breitmore\/\">Roberta Breitmore (1973-1978)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-early-work\/\">Early work (1967-68)<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;fade-up&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Photography (1984-2004)&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; font_size=&#8221;16&#8243; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;600&#8243;][vc_column_text] Lynn Hershman Leeson has frequently worked with photography, creating collages in analog and digital media. These compositions usually address subjects such as identity, subjectivity, seduction, and the body, in relation to technology and archetypal images of women. In the series Phantom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"kayo-button-simple wvc-button wvc-button-size-xs\" href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/hershman-leeson-lynn\/hershman-photography\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14204,"parent":13977,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[],"class_list":["post-14217","artists_ui","type-artists_ui","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry","clearfix","entry-grid","entry-columns-default","entry-artists_ui-module-layout-standard","thumbnail-color-tone-light","metro-portrait","entry-artists_ui","entry-artists_ui-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists_ui\/14217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists_ui"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists_ui"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists_ui\/13977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}