Closer - My mother and I in a hotel room, 1998

Elinor Carucci is renowned for sensuous portraits of her family and herself. 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 family and self-portraits and artful abstractions, making Closer a daring portrayal of the artist's intimate emotional geography. Carucci's work is first and foremost about the nuclear family, and also touches upon the universality of intimacy and mortality. Her parents, grandparents, and spouse are the central players, each of whom she portrays gently but unflinchingly in her images. Her photographs work with a definite color palette and there ...View all