Bären Mädchen/ Bear Girls
Ute Behrend
BummBumm Books
German, English
Hardcover
128 Pages
220 x 297 mm
2019
ISBN 9783948059002
Adolescence is the subject of Ute Behrend’s new photo book. It tells the story of a fictitious Indian tribe that keeps its pubescent girls in separation and dresses them in bearskins to protect them from premature sexualization. She draws parallels to our society, where free spaces for adolescent girls are constantly diminishing. Many young women try to evade the stereotypes of sexualised identification that are shaped by society and the media.
About the Artist
Ute Behrend is a German artist, publisher, lecturer and editor, based in Cologne, Germany. She is co-founder of BUMMBUMM BOOKS and member of the German Photography Academy (DFA) and the DGPH. Behrend’s photographs and video installations have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many public collections. After studying Photography, she published her first Book “Girls some Boys and Other Cookies”, with Scalo Publishers 1996 in Zürich.
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About the Publisher
BummBumm Books was founder by Florian v. Wissel and Ute Behrend In 2019 as an independent and autonomous publishing house. Not bound by instructions, we can meet our demands for quality, design and content and our many years of experience as visual authors and book designers.
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