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oapen-20.500.12657-747002023-08-03T02:20:48Z Tall, Slim & Erect Forman, Alex Ehrenreich, Ben Verrone, Patric US History;US Presidents;Marx toys;photography;biography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPQ Central government bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general::BGH Biography: historical, political & military bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects::AGH Human figures depicted in art::AGHF Portraits in art After stumbling upon a wooden box containing a complete set of miniature wax mold figurines of US presidents at a flea market, artist Alex Forman began photographing each little man, minus their pedestals. Presented for the first time in book format, Forman's elegant black and white portraits are accompanied by brief biographies composed entirely of appropriated texts cleverly cut and reassembled by the author. What emerges in Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents is not the tired tale of legendary men and their mythical quest for democracy, but rather, a gossip's dream: Jefferson could not ride a horse for months due to boils on his backside; Hayes felt a crazed and tender devotion to his sister Fanny; Wilson remained a virgin until twenty-eight. While playfully shedding light on these powerful men, their quirks, bodily functions, and stained sheets, Tall, Slim & Erect ultimately asks the reader to question how history is written and built on hearsay, conjecture, rumor, and repetition. 2023-08-02T10:08:44Z 2023-08-02T10:08:44Z 2023 book 9781685711665 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74700 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0508.1.00.pdf https://punctumbooks.com/titles/tall-slim-erect-portraits-of-the-presidents/ punctum books Les Figues 10.53288/0508.1.00 10.53288/0508.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781685711665 ScholarLed Les Figues 146 Brooklyn, NY open access
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After stumbling upon a wooden box containing a complete set of miniature wax mold figurines of US presidents at a flea market, artist Alex Forman began photographing each little man, minus their pedestals. Presented for the first time in book format, Forman's elegant black and white portraits are accompanied by brief biographies composed entirely of appropriated texts cleverly cut and reassembled by the author. What emerges in Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents is not the tired tale of legendary men and their mythical quest for democracy, but rather, a gossip's dream: Jefferson could not ride a horse for months due to boils on his backside; Hayes felt a crazed and tender devotion to his sister Fanny; Wilson remained a virgin until twenty-eight. While playfully shedding light on these powerful men, their quirks, bodily functions, and stained sheets, Tall, Slim & Erect ultimately asks the reader to question how history is written and built on hearsay, conjecture, rumor, and repetition.
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