Oral history interview with Jennifer Rodrigue
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 30 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rodrigue, Jennifer
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
topic: label: Topic
content: Artists' models -- California -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. Funding for the transcription of this Artists and Model series interview provided by Bente and Gerald E. Buck Collection.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Rodrigue, Jennifer
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jennifer Rodrigue was an artist's model from Berkeley, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 25 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2000 April 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rodrig00
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Jennifer Rodrigue conducted 2000 April 13, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Rodrigue's home, in Berkeley, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Rodigue discusses modeling professionally when a student at Mt. Holyoke College; her preference for posing to working in the dormitory kitchen; working for an open workshop in Martha's Vineyard, sessions that led to private modeling; her attraction to the different ways people "view me," and the experience of "watching people watching me"; the power relationship involved in the roles of observer/observed; the power dynamic between men and women and her seeking a relationship "balanced in power" and her view that the experience is about the artist "looking" and "acknowledging anatomy" (hers) as part of the process of image making.