Captive Bait: The Work of Jose Da Silva

Published first in 1989, Linda Williams' landmark book Hard Core, introduced into the academy a field of 'porn studies' that was predominantly centred around heterosexual and pre-digital porn. In the 1999 edition, an epilogue acknowledges new porn developments worthy of study: home video, early virtual, performance art, upscale yuppie, gonzo fetish, 'new' gay, 'real' lesbian, and amateur pornographies.

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Phillip Watkins

Now, Beauty: Cover or Re-Mix

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Simon Blond

Enchantment/Disenchantment: The 2nd Auckland Triennial

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Edward Hanfling

Suburban Edge

Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 5 March - 18 April 2004

Joanna Mendelssohn

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Art of the Biotech Era: Art, Culture and Biotechnology

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