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Elinor Carucci

MOTHER - The images I still love.
  • Location:
    new york, NY, United States
  • Gallery Representation:
    Edwynn Houk Gallery
  • Schools Attended:
    Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
About Elinor Carucci

Born 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel, Elinor Carucci graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography, and moved to New York that same year. Her work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide, solo shows include Edwynn Houk gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, James Hyman and Gagosian Gallery, London among others and group show include The Museum of Modern Art New York, MoCP Chicago and The Photographers' Gallery, London.

Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews and many more publications.
She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and NYFA in 2010. Carucci has published three monographs to date, Closer, Chronicle Books 2002 and Diary of a dancer, SteidlMack 2005 and MOTHER, Prestel 2013.

Carucci currently teaches at the graduate program of photography at School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.

Featured on LensCulture
  • Midlife
    Elinor Carucci
    A journey through the day-to-day dynamics of family life and relationships, this powerful new book confronts an often overlooked period of life: middle-age. 
  • The Story Behind the “Cat Person” Photo Published By The New Yorker
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    Photographer Elinor Carucci gives us a behind-the-scenes look at shooting a commission for the venerable magazine.
  • Mother—The Images I Still Love
    Elinor Carucci
    “Photographs are like your own children…” An internationally regarded portrait photographer reveals a hand-picked selection of previously unpublished works, alongside a few words to accompany her choices.
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