Getty Museum

Untitled

Date

1980–1983

Medium

Chromogenic print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

In her series *Family Docudrama* Cowin blurs the boundaries between truth and fiction, and private behavior and public performance. Drawing equally from family snapshots and soap operas, she presents staged domestic scenes in which she and members of her family, including her identical twin sister, perform as actors. In these ambiguous, open-ended narratives, dramatic moments are exaggerated and the camera's glare is ever present.

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