Title: Living Arrangements

Photographer/s: Sarah Malakoff

Contributor/s: essay by Aprile Gallant

Date of publication: 2011

Place of publication: Blurb

Dimensions: 9.75 x 7.75 inches

Edition size: on demand

Type of binding: softcover, perfect binding

Number of pages: 40

Type of paper: luster

Number of pictures: 25

Type of printing: digital

Printer: Blurb

Publisher: Blurb

Language: English

Category: artist catalog

Price: $34.80

Summary: These photographs are examinations of the home as both a refuge from and at times a re-creation of the outside world. In these images, architecture and furnishings appear as uncanny symbols of culture, family, and nature. With the intentional exclusion of human occupants, the subjects spark curious speculation of their own. The private and personal are expressed in part by objects and signifiers which are displayed versus those which are hidden; what is allowed inside, and what is kept out. For example, doors and windows both frame exterior views and keep the elements at bay. Land, weather, and wildlife are ever present on the other side of the wall even as they are brought safely inside in the form of pattern, simulation, and domesticated animals.

These pictures speak to notions of comfort, class, and style as well as universal attempts to control and transcend our environment. Tensions, and often humor, appear between absence and presence, old and new, real and surreal, permanent and transient, genuine and artificial, the domestic and the natural worlds. The desire to resolve these tensions drives the viewer to create their own narrative and imagine possible inhabitants.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1972, Wellesley, MA

Website: www.sarahmalakoff.com

Book link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1940186

Donated by: Sarah Malakoff

iPL Notes: Received at Review Santa Fe 2011.