JENNIFER GREENBURG
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Jennifer Greenburg's Portfolio | Revising History
Revising History is made by replacing the entire central figure in vernacular photographs with images of myself. I intend the work to engage the audience in a conversation about how historical depictions of women, rife with aesthetically pleasing glamour, are used to help us idealize the American past. Using performative techniques and stagecraft, I transform into a protagonist– navigating her societal expectations sardonically– in order to draw a sharp parallel with the culture of discrimination women still experience today.
This is the work for which I am most known.  You can read more about this project and you can look at other projects here. Student work is below.

She made sure to tell me to keep smiling. 2018
The microphone was reserved for gentlemen, 2020
I have never been good at handling unwarranted attention, 2015
I was not the thinnest, nor the prettiest, but I was the winner! 2015
A girl as pretty as you doesn't need any words at all, 2018
It was finally my day! 2015
I met the man of my future modeling in the Car of Tomorrow, 2018
The insurance agent told me to have my husband or my father call him. 2017
Every photographer provided an opportunity. 2018
I did not have a happy Valentine. 2018
They hired a few of us for the debut of egalitarian architecture in Chicago, 2017
I was a vendor of drink but not love, 2018
Two years later, I was drunk enough to sing at the St. Pat's Party. How embarrassing! 2014
When he was a baby, 2011
Something funny happened in the kitchen, 2011
I have always preferred my own birthday, 2015
When they lifted me on to the piano, I had no choice but to oblige, 2016
My dreams came true the day I did hair for a fashion show, 2013
archival ink jet print, octad, 96x40
My funeral, 2012

Jennifer Greenburg |Student Work
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