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Elinor Carucci

Past exhibition
7 September - 21 November 2006
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Elinor Carucci And if I don't get enough attention, 2002 Chromogenic print 30 x 40 inches Edition of 8
Elinor Carucci
And if I don't get enough attention, 2002
Chromogenic print
30 x 40 inches
Edition of 8
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Elinor Carucci, like other great portrait photographers Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, and Nicholas Nixon, has asked her family to participate in an intimate familial introspection. In this exhibition Carucci presents various scenes from a period of marital rift with her husband (Crisis) and from her year long journey with severe back pain (Pain) alongside a selection of images from her earliest body of work (Closer, 1993-2001). The images in this exhibition exude an overall diaristic quality: gripping, voyeuristic and cinematic. Privacies are held up to the light of introspection rather than confrontation.

 

In addition to her work in photography, Carucci is a professional belly dancer and she often turns the lens on herself by employing a self-timer. Her images are performative in nature, a combination of candid snapshots and on-the-spot staging. The photographs are full of observations on body and gesture and often contain nakedness both physical and emotional. Exuding tenderness and warmth, the photographs explore Carucci's relationship with those closest to her. Her curious and penetrating gaze is often startling in its sincerity.

 

Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-born photographer who lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from Bezalel Academy in 1995 but began experimenting with photography when she was 15 years old. Her first photographs were black and white snap shots of her mother, a pivotal subject she continues to revisit and explore in great depth.

 

Carucci has been exhibited widely, with solo shows at several international venues including: the Hafia Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; The Photographers' Gallery, London and Fotographie Forum, Frankfurt. Her photographs are included in public collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Arts, International Center of Photography, The Jewish Museum and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Carucci is a recipient of numerous awards including the ICP Infinity Award (2001), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002). Publications include, Closer, Chronicle Books 2002 and Diary of a Dancer, SteidlMack (2005).

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