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. 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.
Standing left to right: Edna and Bill Perras with their daughter Carolyn, Louise Perras, Georgiana Bourdon, Delia Sumner. Kneeling left to right: Alfred Bourdon, Rose Bourdon, Harvey Perras, Joan Bourdon, Helen Bourdon, and Arthur Perras.
Photograph taken at the Smith Studio in Adams, MA to commemorate the wedding of Rose Perras Bourdon (seated) to Alfred Bourdon (also seated). The witnesses, Maria Perras and Archie Coutu, are standing behind the couple.
Studio Photograph of (from left to right) Maria Perras, Louise Perras, Alphonse Perras, and baby Rose Perras taken during a visit to Adams, MA before emigrating permanently from Canada.
