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Cargando... I Am My Family: Photographic Memories and Fictions (2008)por Rafael Goldchain
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Old family photo albums are fascinating. If you're lucky enough to own one, you've probably spent hours poring overhalf-faded black-and-white portraits of your ancestors, searching for similarities in their facial features and wondering whattheir lives might have been. Unfortunately, not every family has such easy access to their own history. Photographer Rafael Goldchain's Polish-Jewish ancestors emigrated to South America in the 1930s, and many others perished in Polandduring the Naziregime. Also lost in the turmoil of war and emigration were most of the portraits of his extended family.When Goldchain became a parent himself, he decided to make up for this lack of evidence and recreate the lost generations of the past, in the present. Rafael Goldchain'sI Am My Family is a family album of traditional portrait photographs with an unconventional twist: the only subject is Goldchain himself. In an elaborate process involving genealogical research, the use of makeup, hair styling, costume, and props, Goldchain transforms himself into his ancestors and captures their personifications with the camera. Taking some liberties with historical accuracy, Goldchain has assembled a fascinating cast of characters: from his short-story-writing grandfather, to his great-aunts Pola and Fela, to the Rabbi Gur's nephew in wedding dress, Goldchain reinvents himself over and over again. These beautifully reproduced self-portraits trace the evolution of Jewish culture from tradition to modernity and invite us to engage the history of a family decimated and scattered by the traumatic events of the 20th century. Featuring an insightful essay by curator Martha Langford, the portraits are complemented by a selection of the archival images on which they are based as wellas selections from the artist's handwritten sketchbooks. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)770.92The arts Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography Photography Biography And History BiographyClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio: No hay valoraciones.¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
This book is gorgeous, but more importantly it is intellectually fascinating. It is a compendium of portraits of the author's real and imagined relatives from the past hundred years or so -- except all of the photos are actually of the author himself, made up and in costume. The author's technical prowess is incontestable -- the photographs are believable portrayals that seem to reveal character, biography and emotion. However, the work is more than technically brilliant. Indeed, it is a moving meditation on the meaning of family and of heritage. It is made particularly poignant because so much of Mr Goldchain's heritage was lost in the upheavals that characterized 20th century Jewish history, as his family moved from Poland (pre- and post-WWII) to South America and then to Canada; many of his relatives died in the Holocaust. In this book he has lovingly recreated the family album of a past that was largely destroyed and brought it movingly into the present.