Mamiyaroid 20.5

Elinor Carucci

My apologies! But while this image has horrified many since they first saw it when the short story, “Cat Person,” was published some years ago, the photographer, Elinor Carucci is worth exploring.

I recommend her photo book, Midlife. It’s full of unflinching images of Carucci and her family, their bodies, and the signs of aging that can’t be erased, only masked, or blurred.

She does lots of commercial work, and that’s how the “Cat Person” image came about. Read about that here.

She’s one of those photographers that makes herself part of the story.

And I imagine that Nan Goldin is an influence. Just look at this one.

And then the one by Nan Goldin, below.

Except in Carucci’s photographs there isn’t that squalid two-some alienation you see in Goldin’s work.

One last one. See more of her work here.

This week I’ve been listening to The New Year so maybe you’d like to, as well.

Until next time…

Adalena

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-Adalena Kavanagh