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Meridith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, Maine, 1981 and Meridith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York, 2006
Meridith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, Maine, 1981 and Meridith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York, 2006
Meridith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, Maine, 1981 and Meridith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York, 2006

Meridith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, Maine, 1981 and Meridith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York, 2006

Artist (American, born 1942)
Printer (American, born 1963)
Dateprinted 2015
Mediumpigment prints (diptych)
DimensionsImage (each): 19 1/4 × 24 1/8 in. (48.9 × 61.3 cm)
Support (Each): 24 × 25 3/8 in. (61 × 64.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Gay Block, 2015
Object number2015.19.1ab
DescriptionThe piece consists of two framed panels. The panel at left is a black-and-white head and shoulders portrait of a girl with pigtails and freckles facing the camera and standing outdoors. The panel at right is a color bust-length portrait of a woman with long blonde hair and a neutral knitted top with buttons, standing in front of outdoor greenery and wearing a pearl necklace and earring.
Text Entries
When Block was starting out as a photographer, she visited the summer camp she had attended as a child and photographed some of the girls there, including her daughter. Captivated by their interactions and their potential, she decided to photograph them as adults to find out who they had become. Putting the  two portraits side-by-side, the artist leaves it for us to decide how much we can read about a person by looking at her picture.
The piece is a diptych, two images meant to be shown framed with edges abutting. The panel with the subject as a child should be displayed at left and the panel with the subject as an adult should be displayed at right.

 

See “About Love: Gay Block Photographs and Films, 1973-1022” (Radius, 2011), p. 170-171.
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