Series of Three Hand Tinted Ctype Photographs
Bride of theGorilla 1951 (pictured),
Bride of the Gorilla,Gorille enlevant une femme, Gorilla carrying off a woman 1887,
Blonde Venus 1932
Part of the series Beauty and the Beast Pt2, Set in the times of Darwins theory of evolution where the ape was seen as the brutish side of man. Reenactments of stills taken during the silent film era for the film Bride of the Gorilla, Beauty and The Beast and Blonde Venus .
We are all apes, is artist Lisa Roet’s clarion call in I am Ape, a new monograph of her three decade career.
