What She Said
Deanna Templeton
MACK
What She Said takes its title from a song by The Smiths: “What she said was sad / But then, all the rejection she’s had / To pretend to be happy / Could only be idiocy.” The work originates in portraits Deanna Templeton made on the streets of the US, Europe, Australia and Russia, in which she captured women in their adolescence: punks and outcasts whose ripped jeans and tights, tattoos, and hairstyles stand as testament to this transitional moment in their lives as they navigate the intensity of teenage life. Templeton grew up in an ostensibly different environment in 1980s youth, but she recognised in them something of the universality of female adolescence, as they struggled with similar disappointments and challenges she encountered as a young woman. The book combines these modern portraits with gig flyers and Templeton’s own teenage journal entries from the mid to late 80s, in which the familiar experience of growing up is laid bare in all its antagonism, humour and pathos.
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Embossed linen hardback with tip-in
19.5 x 24.5cm 168 pages
ISBN 978-1-913620-05-9
January 2021
The signed edition includes an extra image plate signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover.
“Profound documentation of life as a teenage girl“ – AnOther
“The artist’s street portraits of young Californian goths and punks took her back to her own adolescence in the 1980s, a troubled period she recorded in an intense journal” – Sean O’Hagan, The Observer
“[What She Said]burrows deep inside the internal world of young women [and] underlines youth's universal pains and joys – from anxieties about body image to the feverish intensity of live punk shows.” – i-D
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