Elinor Carucci

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Elinor Carucci
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BornJune 11, 1971
Jerusalem, Israel
NationalityIsrael, United States
EducationBezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Known forphotography
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
Websitewww.elinorcarucci.com

Elinor Carucci (born June 11, 1971) is an Israeli-American Fine Art Photographer.[1][2] She is based in New York City.

Carucci has published three monographs to date; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013) and Midlife (2019) While maintaining a photography practice, Carucci has also taught at Princeton University and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

In 2001, she was awarded the ICP Infinity Award and in 2010 a Guggenheim Fellowship. Carucci’s work has been included in solo shows at , and James Hyman in London.

Life[]

Carucci graduated in 1989 from Rubin Academy High School of Dance and Music in Jerusalem where she majored in Music. She then served in the Israeli Army for two years from 1989 to 1991. After serving she graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography and moved to New York City that same year, where she now lives with her husband, Eran Bendheim, and their two children.[citation needed]

She currently teaches at the graduate program of photography at School of Visual Arts while continuing her personal fine art photography projects. Currently, she is returning to photographing her children and their social cycles as teenagers and working on a project about mid-life.

Her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews and many more publications.

As put in a B&H Studio Visit with Carucci,[3] her work consistently dives into the personal, yet always with the goal of finding universal meaning. Her photographs reflect qualities of the snapshot home-photo-album aesthetic, yet also that of the theatrically staged image. In this, she melts boundaries between the two extremes of Nan Goldin and Sally Mann, two of her greatest inspirations, as described in ARTnews article published in November 2006 by and in the B&H Studio Visit with Carucci.[3]

Major works[]

Closer[]

Carucci’s first monograph, Closer, contains her earlier work focusing on immediate family and her closest relationships. A Time Lightbox article from 2013 summarizes the work as chronicling "her tumultuous relationship with her husband and parents through incidences 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."[4]

Diary of a Dancer[]

Published in 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. It proved difficult for her to dance and take photographs herself, so she often had the help of husband Eran Bendheim. Images in this work reflect Carucci applying makeup and preparing for jobs in dismal looking bathrooms and on subway rides, snapshots of her dancing and of the people she was entertaining.

Mother[]

Carucci’s third monograph, Mother (2013), examines the world of her own motherhood. Beginning during the pregnancy of her twins and ending when they turn eight years old, she explores the deeply sensual and erotic connections between mother and child, all of the highs and lows in photographs reflecting the range of bliss to the raw, less attractive moments.[4][5]

Crisis[]

This body of work (2001–2003) narrates a tumultuous time in her marriage to Eran Bendheim. Taking place at a time when they were working through her infidelity and chronic physical pain and his drug abuse, these photographs look straight into the darkness of post-arguments, as well as at their tender moments. Carucci has described how photographing this process actually 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.

Pain[]

This project documents Carucci’s time dealing with excruciating back pain during the years 2002 to 2003.[6]

Publications[]

  • Closer. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2002. ISBN 9780811834940.
  • Chronicle, 2009. ISBN 9780811870443 . Second edition. With a foreword by . 80 photographs.
  • Diary of a Dancer. SteidlMack, 2005. ISBN 978-3865211552.
  • Mother. Prestel, 2013. ISBN 978-3791348155.
  • Midlife. Monacelli Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-58093-529-6

Solo exhibitions[]

  • 1996: National Arts Club, New York
  • 1996: Princeton University, Visual Arts Gallery, Princeton, NJ
  • 1997: Ricco\Maresca Gallery, New York
  • 1999: The Photographers' Gallery, London
  • 1999: Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 1999: Prague House of Photography, Prague
  • 1999: Detail, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
  • 2000: Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
  • 2000: Details, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
  • 2002: 51 Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2002: Closer, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York; Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, 2002; Gagosian Gallery, London, 2003; Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2004.
  • 2004: New Gallery/Thom Andriola, Houston, TX
  • 2004: Images of family and pain, Scalo Gallery, Zurich, SZ
  • 2006: Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
  • 2006: Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
  • 2006: Analix Forever, Geneva, SZ
  • 2006: Photography Gallery Vilnius: Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers, Lithuania
  • 2006: Diary of a Dancer, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York; 51 Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium, 2006; Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany, 2006.
  • 2006: It's me, Herzlia Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzlia, Israel
  • 2006: Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York NY
  • 2007: Art Academy of Cincinnati, Convergys Gallery
  • 2007: Biennale de la Photographie, Luik, Belgium
  • 2008: Women in photography (www.wipnyc.org)
  • 2010: Intimacy, James Hyman Gallery, London[7]
  • 2010: My Children, Centre pour la Fotografie Contemporaine Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon[8]
  • 2011: Insight, , Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2011: Love, in spite..., Tavi Art Gallery, Israel
  • 2011: BORN, Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York[9]
  • 2012: Fotografins hus, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2014: Mother, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York[4][10][11][12]
  • 2015: The Effect of Motherhood, Conde Nast Gallery, New York
  • 2016: The family of (wo)man – Coming back to Musrara – Musrara art gallery, Jerusalem Israel
  • 2017: About Love - a two person show (with Tatsiana Tkachova), Mapt, a Non-Profit Organization in Yekaterinburg, Russia
  • 2018: Getting Closer Becoming Mother; About Intimacy and Family 1993 -2012, Cortona on the move festival, main artist show, Cortona, Itally
  • 2019: Midlife, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2020: COVID, the gallery of the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, MO
  • 2020: MIDLIFE – Virtual solo show, Edwynn Houk Gallery

Awards[]

Collections[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ "Photographer Elinor Carucci's best shot | Art and design". The Guardian. 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  2. ^ "Women in photography: Elinor Carucci". Wipnyc.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-27. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/studio-visit-elinor-carucci
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Bright, Susan. "The Most Intimate Dance: Elinor Carucci's Photos of Motherhood". Time. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  5. ^ Appleford, Steve. "A year-end spread of bold, inventive photography books - Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  6. ^ "Dear Dave Magazine". ww.deardavemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  7. ^ James Hyman Gallery
  8. ^ "Le Bleu du Ciel". Archived from the original on 2017-05-06. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
  9. ^ Sasha Wolf Projects
  10. ^ Mother Tongue. "Elinor Carucci: the mother of all photographers". Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  11. ^ Carucci, Elinor. "ELINOR CARUCCI | A Retrospective". Visura Magazine. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  12. ^ "Elinor Carucci's 'Mother' Series Captures The Stunning Highs And Lows Of Being A New Parent (NSFW)". Huffingtonpost.com. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  13. ^ "Past Recipients | International Center of Photography". Icp.org. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  14. ^ "Elinor Carucci". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  15. ^ "Meet a NYFA Artist: Elinor Carucci". New York Foundation for the Arts. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  16. ^ "Recent Photographs by Elinor Carucci at James Hyman Gallery". . Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  17. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  18. ^ "My Mother's Lips | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". www.mfah.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  19. ^ "Collections :: The Harwood Museum of Art :: Taos :: University of New Mexico". collections.harwoodmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  20. ^ "Archive 2011 - Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen". Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen. Retrieved 2018-10-09.

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