Grounded #103
2006 · photograph
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Laura Aguilar
American, 1959
San Gabriel, CA, USA
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Laura Aguilar was an American photographer whose large-format color work examined identity, desire, and the body through intimate self-portraiture and landscapes. Working primarily in chromogenic and Polaroid processes, she created unflinching images that positioned her Chicana lesbian experience at the center of her artistic inquiry. Her practice resisted conventional beauty standards and institutional narratives, asserting presence and agency through direct, unmediated representation. Aguilar's work gained sustained critical attention in the final decade of her life.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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