In country
Subtitle: soldiers' stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
By: Jennifer Karady
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: SF Camerawork Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780984303816
Description: Over the last four years Jennifer Karady has turned the focus of her art practice toward staging photographs of a significant memory from individual veterans' experience in relation to how that memory manifests itself in their civilian life. In creating these photographs, Karady actively engages with these veterans, both as collaborators and subjects. After extensive interviews and a lengthy planning process, each veteran reenacts the chosen memory, in uniform, often surrounded by family and friends and within her or his everyday environment. Karady's pragmatic approach to difficult subject matter shines through in her project's rigorous conceptualization and egalitarian execution. As staged, completely analog photographs rich with allegory and symbolism, these veterans shared memories, recalled and revealed in collaboration with Karady carry with them the stories of their subjects. The veterans' recollections, derived from interviews conducted by the artist, are included alongside the photographs. Currently a work-in-progress, Karady hopes to eventually complete this project with 25 photographs of veterans from around the country.
Notes: "This catalogue is published by SF Camerawork in association with the exhibition Jennifer Karady, In Country: Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan (May 6-August 7, 2010)"--T.p. verso.