Stopping Down
Artist
Ellen Carey
(b. 1952)
Date2001
MediumFive individual Polaroid unique color prints with their negatives (10 sheets total)
DimensionsImage Size: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) each
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the artist in memory of her parents and brother
Object number2021.19.2
DescriptionA series of Polaroid 8 x 10 self-portraits, the name "stopping down” refers to the photographic term in the f/stops on a camera’s lens, thus going from one stop to another (i.e. f/8 to a smaller aperture is one stop to f/11) comments on the narrative of a diminishing light (the smaller the aperture, the less light goes through the circular aperture, thus the darker the light that strikes the film) as well as aging, plus shadow and silhouette, characteristics found specific to the medium of photography; this series was made in the summer of 2001, several months before 9/11, which Carey was in DC that fateful day, and took a train through NYC several days later, Carey was approaching her 50th year, a half century.On View
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