Description Baron – Alice Hawkins – Dear Dolly For Alice Hawkins second book Dear Dolly, the photographer uses herself to appropriate the imagery and guises employed by country western sensation and American dream, Dolly Parton.As Hawkins states herself I have always embraced my fantasies through my photography. Sought the unfashionable, audacious, gaudy and glamorous, and used my work as a guise to experiment with my own identity, because I have dreams of being as brave and ostentatious myself. Shot over a 10 year period, the book sees Alice travel the world as Parton I threw my inspiration into a suitcase, got on a plane and stepped right into them. The seriesalso stars a cast of friends, family and Dolly fans who all adornmake-up, costumes, props and prosthetics to manipulate their appearances into Dolly. Dear Dollyinvestigateshow Partondismantles stereotypes surrounding class and female representations through the singers music and appearance. Asacademic, Dr. James Barker argues Partons visual persona, is loaded with meaning. The country girls idea of glam represents a class consciousness, taking middle class beauty standards and ideals and subjecting them to a working class lens. Dear Dolly also includes an introduction bySusie Rushton, the Deputy Editor of Telegraph Luxury, and a Contributing Editor to The Gentlewoman and anessay by Dr.James Barkerwhose work explores LGBTQ belonging in country music, using Dolly Parton as his main case study. Dear Dolly is designed by Suburbia, Creative Directors of British Vogue. Alice Hawkins Bio Alice Hawkins is a London-based photographer whose work examines the societal definitions of femininity and gender. Since graduating from Camberwell College of Art in 2001, she has contributed to Pop, i-D, LOVE to Vogue. Hawkins has exhibited internationally with group and solo shows at Somerset House, London to UCCA, Beijing, China. Hawkins’s first book, entitled Alices Adventures was published in 2017 by Thames & Hudson, Dear Dolly is the photographers second book, published in 2022 by Baron. 32 x 26 cm 200 Pages
