{"id":3704,"date":"2015-06-10T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2015-06-10T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:58:14","slug":"laura-beth-reeses-ex-boyfriends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/laura-beth-reeses-ex-boyfriends\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Beth Reese’s Intimate Ex-Boyfriend Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Boston-based artist Laura Beth Reese<\/a>, breakups will always be a part of her life. The photographer’s series Ex-Boyfriends<\/em> sees Reese capture photographic mementos of her former partners after the relationship is over. The images see the subjects, tacit and half-undressed, as they pose for her camera and gaze, pensively into the distance. <\/p>\n

The portraits of former lovers are intimate and vulnerable, almost awkward, while being emotionally exclusive: Reese reveals no history or background about her past with any of the subjects and, in setting each portrait in a similar way – all subjects are shirtless and wearing underwear – she normalizes all of the relationships.<\/p>\n

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For Boston-based artist Laura Beth Reese, breakups will always be a part of her life. The photographer’s series Ex-Boyfriends sees Reese capture photographic mementos of her former partners after the relationship is over. The images see the subjects, tacit and half-undressed, as they pose for her camera and gaze, pensively into the distance. The portraits of former lovers are intimate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-laura-beth-reese"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-XK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}