Extérieurs. Review by Barbara Lewis. Annie Ernaux in 2022 became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature after producing a body of work that charts her progress from working class origins, feelings of shame during her years being educated at private school that she was not sufficiently bourgeois, to her career as a teacher, then full-time writer.
photography
![Self portrait with flower in mouth 1947 Self portrait with flower in mouth 1947](https://londongrip.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Self-portrait-with-flower-in-mouth-1947-180x205.jpg)
Pasolini Painter. Review by Carla Scarano. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s complex personality and multifaceted creativity are displayed in full at the exhibition Pasolini Pittore at Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Rome.
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OFFCUMDENS: Sue Wallace-Shaddad reviews a poem & photograph collaboration by Bob Hamilton & Emma Storr
![Reinventing the suit Reinventing the suit](https://londongrip.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Reinventing-the-suit-180x135.jpg)
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear. V&A. Review by Carla Scarano. A fluidity that looks for alternative concepts of masculinity that trespasses traditional roles and expresses the possibilities of the individual is the main focus of the V&A exhibition.
![Iris Van Herpen, Infinity Dress Iris Van Herpen, Infinity Dress](https://londongrip.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Iris-Van-Herpen-Infinity-Dress-180x240.jpg)
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, Victoria and Albert Museum. Review by Carla Scarano. .”..a marvellous but unsettling journey through the origin of Alice’s stories and their adaptations and reinventions in films, art, music, fashion, photography and design.”
Hong Kong Whispers. Review by Barbara Lewis. Hong Kong, one of the most densely populated places on earth, was the muse of the late German photographer Michael Wolf.
By Barbara Lewis • books, photography, year 2024 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, photography