honorable mention
George Cavalletto united states
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Portraits of a family
I aspire both to render each member of my family a unique visual presence and at the same time to make visible certain elements that as family members each shares of a larger perceptual world. A family world infused with it’s own memories, myths, and metaphors —and, to use Walter Benjamin’s phrase, its own “optical unconscious.”
In my mid 70s I retired from being a college professor of sociology. With a seriousness equal to that of my previous commitment to teaching sociology, I have taken up an apprenticeship in photography. Greatly helpful has been course work at the school of the International Center for Photography in New York, where for the last two years I have been a student in its Special Track Program.
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Portraits of a family.I aspire both to render each member of my family a unique visual presence and at the same time to make visible certain elements that as family members each shares of a larger perceptual world. A family world infused with it’s own memories, myths, and metaphors —and, to use Walter Benjamin’s phrase, its own “optical unconscious.”
about the photographer
I’ve been taking photos of family members for the last 70 years. But only in the last three years have I approached taking such photos as a conscious aesthetic undertaking.In my mid 70s I retired from being a college professor of sociology. With a seriousness equal to that of my previous commitment to teaching sociology, I have taken up an apprenticeship in photography. Greatly helpful has been course work at the school of the International Center for Photography in New York, where for the last two years I have been a student in its Special Track Program.
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