{"product_id":"laura-larson-city-of-incurable-women","title":"Laura Larson: City of Incurable Women","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCity of Incurable Women\u003c\/em\u003e pictures the complex lives of the 19th century women, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who were hospitalized at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. Incorporating a broad range of materials, Larson layers archival imagery with her own photographs and texts, speculating through the documented accounts of the women’s illness. Larson imagines the women as a collective, making a claim for their shared knowledge and the pleasures and risks of escape. Embracing photography’s capacity to feel, \u003cem\u003eCity of Incurable Women\u003c\/em\u003e sees these women as unruly spirits that haunt the present, mining the radical possibilities of empathy and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eLaura Larson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including Art in General, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, SFCamerawork, Susanne Vielmetter\/L.A. Projects, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time Out New York, and she has published artist projects in Cabinet, Documents, and The Literary Review. \u003cem\u003eCity of Incurable Women\u003c\/em\u003e is her second book with Saint Lucy; her first, \u003cem\u003eHidden Mother\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Aperture\/Paris Photo First Book Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePublished by Saint Lucy Books\u003cbr data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"77\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e2020\u003cbr data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"84\"\u003eUSA\u003cbr data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"90\"\u003eEdition of 1,000\u003cbr data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"109\"\u003eHardcover\u003cbr data-start=\"118\" data-end=\"121\"\u003e18 × 24 × 2 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"138\"\u003e176 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saint Lucy Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555666497593,"sku":"210000003101","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/citycover1.jpg?v=1790279759","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/laura-larson-city-of-incurable-women","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}