In 1976
Marcia Resnick began work on Re-visions, a series of photographic
reconstructions of memories of her early life. Like those of other women
artists of her generation, including Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie
Simmons, Resnick’s humorous images of female adolescence transforming into
womanhood explored questions raised by feminism. Staging ideas for the camera
rather than seeking out an equivalent in the tangible world—“making” a photograph
by creating and arranging the elements, rather than “taking” a photograph—has
gone through cycles of popularity, and Resnick’s images were produced
concurrently with a burst of new activity by other Conceptual photographers in
the 1970s.