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In the Neighborhood
Annaliese Cassarino has created a number of different photographic series. In her
current series, titled In the Neighborhood, Cassarino explores local neighborhoods
and looks at the things people usually pass by without seeing. Based on the time
of day and the interaction of light and form, she works to create black and white
visual vignettes. Cassarino has discovered the odd, the beautiful and the ethereal
during her foot travels of the everyday neighborhood.
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American Flag
The American Flag series, photographed from 1998 - 2003, led to three cross-country
trips to photograph the display of the flag throughout the United States. The project
encompasses the display of the flag by private individuals and the government,
emotions communicated through the flag, and the American landscape and American
life in the presence of the flag. Cassarino printed these images, made with large
format and 35mm transparencies, on Cibachrome paper to portray the vibrancy of the
flag and the vibrancy of American life.
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Ideal
The Ideal series presents a comparison between the ideal found in statues and
the real found in humans. Many of the images also contain interaction between
the forms. This interaction is meant to suggest the attainment of the ideal
within one's romantic relationship. The continuation of the project involves
adornment of the ideal.
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Solitude
The Solitude series involves large format photographs of old structures
and the landscape. In these images, Cassarino explores the quiet and foreboding
atmosphere of buildings that have witnessed past lives and have sometimes now been
left empty. Cassarino has contact printed the work in this series on hand-coated,
watercolor paper using the Van Dyke Brown process. The original 4x5" black and
white negatives are made with a Wisner 4x5 camera.
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