Michael Weinstein

Kinky to the core, Len Prince's black-and-white performance photographs of Jessie Mann--the daughter of the notorious Sally Mann who vaulted to fame by shooting her children in provocative staged scenes--are a daughter's fitting revenge against her mother, who always insisted that her images were not rife with sexual overtones. Look at Jessie lying on a couch showing us her ample buttocks, standing at attention in a nurse's uniform ready to take us under her care, or lying naked in a bathtub that has stage blood spilling over its side--among other similar shots--and you will get an idea of her expansive sexual imagination. Jessie Mann is fully in control of her persona in this project and is obviously enjoying herself, even though she is ever insouciant.

Len Prince shows at Catherine Edelman Gallery, 300 West Superior, (312)266-2350, through April 14.

(2007-03-20)

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