Virginia's Room 1972
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'Virginia's Room 1972' was exhibited as an audio visual projection. It was part of 'The Lfe and Times of Lillian Virginia Mountweazel' curated by Davey Moor at Monster Truck Gallery. The other artists involved were Fiona Hallinan & Françoise de Mulneton, Philip Kennedy, Sabina Mac Mahon and Jim Ricks.
Mountweazel, Lillian Virginia, 1942-1973, American photographer, b. Bangs, Ohio. Turning from fountain design to photography in 1963,
Mountweazel produced her celebrated portraits of the South Sierra Miwok in 1964. She was awarded government grants to make a series of photo-essays of unusual subject matter, including New York City buses, the cemeteries of Paris and rural American mailboxes. The last group was exhibited extensively abroad and published as Flags Up! (1972) Mountweazel died at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine. - William H. Harris and Judith S. Levey, eds, “Mountweazel, Lillian Virginia”, The New Columbia Encyclopedia, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975), 1850.
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