Secrets of the hair salon, from high street to high rise: Eileen Perrier/Dianne Minnicucci review

★★ ★ ☆ ☆/ ★★★☆☆ Autograph, London In a double bill that challenges white-centric beauty standards, Perrier uses a pop-up studio to make portraits of diverse communities, while Minnicucci confronts her fears by venturing in front of the cameraThe art world is obsessed with the idea of “being seen”. In a culture of lookism, being seen is understood as tantamount to existing, even to survival. But being seen is complicated. Both the current exhibitions at Autograph grapple with this through photographs by two women of the same generation working in portraiture.Eileen Perrier’s A Thousand Small Stories occupies the ground-floor gallery. Since the 1990s, Perrier’s work has centred on setting up temporary photographic studios, in homes, hair salons, on the streets of Brixton and Peckham in London, and at a metro station in Paris. Her 2009 exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London displayed large-format Polaroid portraits taken in pop-up studios at Petticoat Lane market and in the nearby 23-storey tower block Denning Point. The travelling portrait studio has been a device Perrier has used for 30 years, to take photography into diverse communities and tackle the politics of beauty and identity. This is the first survey of her work. Continue reading...

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