Closer
2002
CLOSER by Elinor Carucci is the first monograph by this recipient of the prestigious International Center for Photographys 2001 Infinity Award for Best Young Photographer and the recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship at a very young age. Carucci is renowned for sensuous portraits of her family and herself, and Closer reveals the breadth of her work, from the intimate to the ethereal-exposing an emotionally honest world flooded with color.
Fragments of her life are revealed through 90 full-color sjowing her earlier work focusing on immediate family and her closest relationships, family portraits, self-portraits, and artful abstractions, making Closer a daring portrayal of this up-and-coming artists intimate emotional geography.
- Copies: 15000
- Pages: 120
- Type of binding: hard cover
- Languages: English
- Dimensions (cm): 11x0.25x9.5 inches
- Type of printing: color
- Publication: Chronicle Books
- Place of publication: USA
- Book photography: Elinor Carucci
- ISBN: 9780811834940
Elinor Carucci (1971) is an Israeli-American photographer. She was born and raised in Jerusalem to a family of Moroccan and Bukhari descent. Her photographs reveal intimate moments from family life. Since 2000 she has been teaching in the graduate photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York, since 2001 she has been a guest lecturer at The International Center of Photography in New York, and since 2004 she has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University. In 2002 she received one of the most prestigious awards in the art world, the Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is in private and museum collections around the world.
