Mariette Pathy Allen
 

Year: 2013
Size: 13" x 20"
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Edition: 1/10
Value: $1600

Minimum bid: $400

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Image courtesy Mariette Pathy Allen.
 

Mariette Pathy Allen is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of 

Pennsylvania, where she received an MFA in painting.

 

She won a New York State Council on the Arts grant in 1988, and in 1989, her book, “Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them”, was published by E.P. Dutton, Inc. Her second book, “The Gender Frontier”,  published by Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany, won a 2004 Lambda Literary Award. Allen has been a consultant and still photographer on five films; “Southern Comfort” won the 2001 Sundance documentary award. Her photographs have been included in a number of national and international

 exhibitions and are in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the George Eastman House, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum , the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the 

Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Frankfurt, and others. 

 

Mariette's life work is being archived at Duke University's Rubenstein 

Library and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's Studies. Her book, 

"TransCuba", will be released by Daylight Books, in March, 2014. This 

photograph of Miquel, who is the partner of Nomi, a transgender woman, will be included in the book.

 

www.mariettepathyallen.com