Family Chris Verene Verene walks right into the lives of his folks, showing you how they are, without any embarrassment on either side. Their togetherness is taken for granted so openly that the viewer feels at each moment like one of them, a member of the clan. Verene s color [is] tender, warm and sensual, though stops well short of being glamorous . . . flooding them all with a strange, sweet romance. These pictures convey his bittersweet fondness for a smaller world in which he grew up but no longer shares, but which has lessons to teach him about the inroads of ageing, disability and other difficulties. People do what they can to help each other and themselves, all from leaking boats. Meanwhile, the dark room and the night bring tidings of their isolation. Many viewers are familiar with visits back home in this mood, which Verene renders luminous and fatal. - Max Kozloff, The Theater of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900
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"Family" unquestionably lives up to its title and deserves the highest recommendation
September 12, 2010
Family is a striking coffee-table book of photographs offering a glimpse into everyday life, true dilemmas, and personal stories of photographer Chris Verene's extended family and their neighbors living in Galesburg, Illinois during the past twenty-six years. Galesburg has struggled with tough economic times during the last quarter-century, and it shows. Her are candid, vivid images of ordinary people seeking to make ends meet, living in an abandoned restaurant, a trailer, or a vehicle if need be, and forming bonds of family even in the absence of a husband, or a wife, or despite other social upheaval. There are also photographs of joy, celebration, reminiscing with friends, and the simple pleasures of day-to-day ordinary life. The extremely brief yet illuminating captions (such as "Amber left town with the carnival. She took us on the Ferris wheel to say goodbye.") leave the pictures themselves to tell a thousand words. Unique and poignant, "Family" unquestionably lives up to its title and deserves the highest recommendation.
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