Meridith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, Maine, 1981 and Meridith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York, 2006
Artist
Gay Block
(American, born 1942)
Printer
Wendy Young
(American, born 1963)
Date1981, 2006 (printed 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)
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.eMuseum Notes
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.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- portraits
- women
- girls
- childhood
- adulthood
- pearl
- camps (recreation areas)
- summer
- Judaism
