April Dawn Alison British Without being tempted by the

Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of conventional documentary

often lying in the shadows of industrial decline

Berlin 2013 / Galerie im Taxispalais

She has written about New Deal FSA photographers—particularly Dorothea Lange

April Dawn Alison British Without being tempted by theMade over the course of some thirty years, the photographs in this book depict the many faces of April Dawn Alison, the female persona of an Oakland, California based photographer who lived in the world as a man. This previously unseen body of self portraits, which was given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2017, begins tentatively in 1970s in black and white, and evolves in the 80s into an exuberant, wildly colourful, and obsessive