Audrey

Media: photography

Number of images: on-going

Print size: 16x20, 30x40 inches

Execution: 2010 - 2014

Photographs made in the Georgian and Victorian style of portraiture using literary, biblical, folk and art references.

[1] Photographed in the "Grand Manner" of Reynolds, Gainsborough and Sargent with a reference to Degas.
[2] A tribute to (the fictional) Carolyn Keene, author of the Nancy Drew series of mysteries.
[3] The quotation is from J.S. Bach's Cantata, BWV 140, which in English, has been translated as "Sleepers Awake!" Bach based this on the hymn by Philipp Nicolai (1599), who in turn drew it from a parable the New Testament (Matthew 25:1-13).
[4] A nod to Charles Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll) 1871 book, "Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there". Dodgson was also a photographer.
[5] A reference to L. T. Meade, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), who wrote over 300 books of stories for and about girls.
Audrey

Audrey at age 15 (2014)

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Audrey

Audrey at age 15 (2014)

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Audrey - photographic series. A tribute to (the fictional) Carolyn Keene, author of the Nancy Drew series of mysteries

"The Mystery of the Oaken Chest" (2010)

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Audrey - photographic series. The quotation is from J.S. Bach's Cantata, BWV 140, which in English, has been translated as Sleepers Awake! Bach based this on the hymn by Philipp Nicolai (1599), who in turn drew it from a parable in the New Testament (Matthew 25:1-13)

"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (2010)

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Audrey - photographic series. A nod to Charles Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll) 1871 book, 'Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there'. Dodgson was also a photographer.

"Through the Looking-Glass and what Audrey found there" (2010)

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Audrey - photographic series. A reference to L. T. Meade, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), who wrote over 300 books of stories for and about girls.

"The Waif" (2010)

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