Closer [Hardcover]

Elinor Carucci (Author, Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2002

Closer: Photographs by Elinor Carucci is the first monograph by this recipient of the prestigious International Center for Photographys 2001 Infinity Award for Best Young Photographer. Carucci is renowned for sensuous portraits of her family and herself, and Closer reveals the breadth of her work, from the erotic to the ethereal-exposing an emotionally honest world flooded with color. Fragments of her life are revealed through 90 full-color family portraits, self-portraits, and artful abstractions, making Closer a daring portrayal of this up-and-coming artists intimate emotional geography.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition of the artist's work held at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City, this first book by the 2001 recipient of the prestigious International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Young Photographer includes a three-page introductory essay by the artist (with cultural critic Gadi Taub) and 91 full-color family portraits, self-portraits, and abstractions. The dated and captioned images cover a nine-year period in Carucci's life, from 1993 until 2001. While the works in this monograph focus on the personal life of the 31-year-old photographer, who was born and educated in Israel, they also feature broader themes, such as love, marriage, intimacy, and privacy. The photographs are disconcerting in their attempt to examine and elevate everyday, and often overtly sexual, material to a fine art. This first book belongs in specialized library collections covering contemporary photography, but given the predominantly nonscholarly and visual nature of this monograph, academic librarians with limited budgets may need to pass. Cheryl Ann Lajos, Free Library of Philadelphia
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Elinor Carucci was born in 1971 in Israel and received her B.F.A. from Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. Her work has appeared in Nerve: The New Nude, as well as Love and Desire, both published by Chronicle Books. She lives and works in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 1ST edition (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811834190
• ISBN-13: 978-0811834193
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,773,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Palpable vulnerability, February 19, 2005

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photogogue "iconophile" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Closer (Hardcover)

Technically splendid and affecting photography from a major new talent. Carucci brings a Nan Goldin-esque virtuosity to her chronicle of the intimate spheres of self and family.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars simple yet powerful book, August 7, 2003

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A. Dan "simoril" (israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Closer (Paperback)

this book's simply moving, it's shows with very simple direct photos a very deep look into the artist's life and her realtion to family, lover, husbend, freinds and her own body. it manage to creat the exsact right tention between personal and univesral, makeing you feel as if the people shot in the photos are both extrwamly indevidual and at the same time iconic - as if the most perosnal emotions we have are a part of something larger.
someting that personaly intrest me is the sense of imaigrent in her photos showing very israely people and scenes combined beautifuly with that europian light and places.

it's one of the most moving photography i have seen.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful work!, July 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Closer (Paperback)

This is a great book. The photographer managed to tell a beautiful story about the web of relationships in her life. I envy the simple and talented way she presents her life and the people she care for. I am sure that we will hear more about this raising star in the art of photography