Sleeping Beauty silas-finch where nature is domesticated

where nature is domesticated

while it was happening

march 2003

A limp happy-birthday balloon on the floor

This collection is comprised of portraits of famous personalities: some alone–captured in the threshold between the private and the public

Sleeping Beauty silas-finch where nature is domesticatedPhotography was quickly adapted to the social rituals and customs of nineteenth century America, and among these institutions was the memorial portrait. until the advent of photography, this portrait was a painting and was primarily an upper class phenomenon. With the widespread use of the camera, nearly everyone could afford a post mortem portrait, and for the next half century these portraits were a mainstay of American's commercial photographers.