By Marianne Courville
Located in Surfside, FL
Deaccessioned from an important corporate collection.
You (Five Children)
From NY Times review:
The large color photographs give no hint of their painstaking genesis. They are
generously impressionistic, some suggesting fragile beauty and others, the
mysterious, often dark side of memory.
To get those images, the photographer Marianne Courville combed through
reels of eight-millimeter film, frame by frame over a light table, each frame
measuring about one-quarter by one-eighth inch. The reels were mostly home
movies taken in the 1960's by her father, James Courville, a biology teacher, and her maternal grandfather, Harry Schiffer, a maintenance man. There were also her own videos, which she has been shooting in recent years. (Ms. Courville sends the selected frames, sometimes in a cinematic sequence, to a photo lab, which makes four-by-five-inch color transparencies as well as Cibachrome prints...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Marianne Courville Art