Janet Delaney: Too Many Products Too Much Pressure

Too Many Products Too Much Pressure – Janet Delaney
Deadbeat Club

Janet Delaney’s Too Many Products Too Much Pressure revisits a week spent shadowing her father, a travelling beauty salesman in Los Angeles in 1980. The project, initially born of curiosity, becomes an incisive study of labour, gender and familial perspective. Delaney’s photographs, marked by their frontal compositions and bright flash, balance critique and empathy, situating domestic aspiration within the wider framework of postwar American consumer culture. Across long drives, hotel rooms and fluorescent parlours, she exposes the performative rhythms of salesmanship while acknowledging its emotional toll. What emerges is a portrait not of commerce, but of care, as the artist recognises in her father’s persistence a generational form of love.