{"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&#8217;s Intimate Ex-Boyfriend Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Boston-based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurabethreese.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Beth Reese<\/a>, breakups will always be a part of her life. The photographer&#8217;s series <em>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<p>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 &#8211; all subjects are shirtless and wearing underwear &#8211; she normalizes all of the relationships.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the series below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3706\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura0.jpg\" alt=\"laura0\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3707\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura1.jpg\" alt=\"laura1\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3708 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"784\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3709\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura3.jpg\" alt=\"laura3\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3711 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"784\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3710\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura4.jpg\" alt=\"laura4\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3713\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura7.jpg\" alt=\"laura7\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3714 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"784\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3715\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura9.jpg\" alt=\"laura9\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3717\" src=\"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/laura12-1024x717.jpg\" alt=\"laura12\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Boston-based artist Laura Beth Reese, breakups will always be a part of her life. The photographer&#8217;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. 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