Elinor Carucci Explained

Elinor Carucci
Birth Date:[1]
Birth Place:Jerusalem, Israel
Nationality:Israel, United States
Field:Photography
Training:Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Awards:Guggenheim Fellowship, ICP Infinity Award

Elinor Carucci (born 1971) is an Israeli-American photographer and educator, living in New York City, noted for her intimate porayals of her family's lives.[2] [3] [4] She has published five monographs; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013, Midlife (2019) and The Collars of RBG (2023). She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Carucci's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum and Brooklyn Museum in New York, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Harwood Museum of Art in New Mexico.

Early life and education

Carucci was born in Jerusalem.[4] She graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography and moved to New York City.[5]

Teaching career

She currently teaches in the graduate program of photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[6]

Photography

Carucci told an interviewer that she tries to find universal meaning in things that are personal to her. She admires the work of Nan Goldin and Sally Mann, who embody what she calls two opposite extremes in her own work: Some of her photographs are spontaneous snapshots, like Goldin's while other images are carefully staged, more like Mann's.[7]

Closer

Carucci's first monograph, Closer, contains her earlier work focusing on immediate family and her closest relationships.[8] [9]

Diary of a Dancer

Her second monograph, Diary of a Dancer (2005), documents Carucci's experience as a professional Middle-Eastern belly dancer entertaining at events like weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs in the five boroughs of New York City. Her husband, Eran, helped her to capture photographs of herself dancing. The images in this series depict Carucci preparing for jobs and applying makeup in dismal looking bathrooms and on subway rides, snapshots of her dancing and images of the people she was entertaining.

Mother

Carucci's third monograph, Mother (2013), "documents ten years of New York City-based child rearing."[4] Beginning during the pregnancy of her twins and ending when they turn eight years old, she explores the complex realities of motherhood in images that show her joys and the pains, the beautiful and the ugly, and the love and dysfunctions. Mother also shed light on the sensual and erotic connections between mother and child in photographs reflecting the range of Carucci's experience, from bliss to the less attractive raw moments.[10] [11]

Crisis

Crisis (2001–2003) narrates a tumultuous time in her marriage. Taking place at a time when her and her husband were working through her infidelity and mind-body induced physical pain and his marijuana usage, these photographs look straight into the darkness of post-arguments, as well as at their tender moments. Carucci has described how photographing this process brought them closer together, as they ultimately demonstrated to each other in the taking of these photographs that their love for one another is held above all else. Photographing was a way of reconnecting.

A Time Lightbox article from 2013 summarizes the work as chronicling

"her tumultuous relationship with her husband and parents through incidents of infidelity (hers) too much dope (her husband’s) and her parents fractious relationship and eventual divorce. The mood was gentle, though, with plenty of high notes; the everyday ebb and flow of relationships were lovingly and lavishly documented, while the larger narratives played out in the background."[12]

Midlife

Midlife (2011–2019) chronicles the years of middle of life, a time that is overlooked by our culture and society, especially in women's life. It explores themes of women's bodies and health, intergenerational relationship, love and marriage over decades, children getting older, and brings attention to the beauty and challenges of this period of time in women's life.[13] [14] [15]

Publications

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Carucci's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Notes and References

  1. News: Photographer Elinor Carucci's best shot. . 2015-09-30 . 2016-05-21.
  2. Web site: Women in photography: Elinor Carucci . Wipnyc.org . 2016-05-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160327102232/http://www.wipnyc.org/blog/elinor-carucci . 2016-03-27 . dead .
  3. News: Sean. O'Hagan. 2023-08-31. Is Elinor Carucci right to turn the camera on her children?. The Guardian. 11 January 2010. 0261-3077.
  4. Web site: Caroline. Lagnado. 2023-09-02. Expat Israeli artist shoots gritty side of NY motherhood. www.timesofisrael.com.
  5. Web site: 2023-08-30. Elinor Carucci App. Elinor Carucci.
  6. Web site: 2023-09-02. Elinor Carucci - SVA. School of Visual Arts.
  7. Web site: A Studio Visit with Elinor Carucci. bhphotovideo.com.
  8. Web site: 2023-09-02. Elinor Carucci: Closer. 7 January 2010. The Telegraph.
  9. News: Libby. Brooks. 2023-09-02. Move closer. The Guardian. 22 June 2002. 0261-3077.
  10. Web site: A year-end spread of bold, inventive photography books - Los Angeles Times. Appleford. Steve. Los Angeles Times. 7 November 2013. 2018-10-09.
  11. Web site: 2023-08-31. Elinor Carucci: the mother of all photographers. 7 October 2013. The Telegraph.
  12. The Most Intimate Dance: Elinor Carucci's Photos of Motherhood. Bright. Susan. Time. en-us. 2018-10-09.
  13. News: Laura. Mallonee. 2023-08-31. An Artist Takes an Unflinching Look at Her Own Hysterectomy. Wired. 1059-1028.
  14. News: Kristen. Roupenian. 2023-08-31. A Photographer's Intimate Self-Portrait of Womanhood in Middle Age. The New Yorker. 4 September 2019. 0028-792X.
  15. Web site: 2023-08-31. Book Review: Midlife. 24 October 2019. Musée Magazine.
  16. https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/sites/default/files/1971-2017_TPGExhList.pdf
  17. Web site: 2023-08-31. Elinor Carucci. www.herzliyamuseum.co.il.
  18. Web site: Le Bleu du Ciel . 2019-12-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170506064903/http://www.lebleuduciel.net/index.php?%2Fartistes2%2Felinor-carucci%2F . 2017-05-06 . dead .
  19. Web site: Elinor Carucci: the mother of all photographers . Telegraph . 2016-05-21.
  20. Web site: Elinor Carucci's 'Mother' Series Captures The Stunning Highs And Lows Of Being A New Parent (NSFW) . Huffingtonpost.com . 2013-10-15 . 2016-05-21.
  21. News: William. Meyers. 2023-09-02. Inside a Mother's Life and a City's Glamour. Wall Street Journal. 4 April 2014. 0099-9660.
  22. Web site: 2023-08-31. Getting Closer, Becoming Mother: About Intimacy and Family. (1993-2012) Elinor Carucci. Cortona On The Move.
  23. Web site: 2023-09-01. Elinor Carucci - Sheltering in Place. 30 September 2020. UCM Gallery of Art & Design.
  24. Web site: 2023-08-31. Elinor Carucci - MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
  25. Web site: 2023-09-01. Insight - Photo Museum Antwerp - Actuphoto. actuphoto.com.
  26. Web site: Conor. Risch. 2023-09-03. PDN's 30 2000. 18 March 2000. Photo District News.
  27. Web site: Past Recipients . International Center of Photography. 16 May 2016. 2016-05-21.
  28. Web site: Elinor Carucci. 23 May 2016 . .
  29. Web site: Meet a NYFA Artist: Elinor Carucci. 14 October 2013 . 23 May 2016 . .
  30. News: Recent Photographs by Elinor Carucci at James Hyman Gallery. 21 February 2017. artdaily.org.
  31. Web site: Brooklyn Museum. www.brooklynmuseum.org. 2019-03-26.
  32. Web site: My Mother's Lips The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. www.mfah.org. 2019-03-26.
  33. Web site: Collections :: The Harwood Museum of Art :: Taos :: University of New Mexico. harwoodmuseum.org. 2018-10-09.
  34. News: Archive 2011 - Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen. Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen. 2018-10-09. en.

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