Candace Gaudiani
Astrological Sign
Capricorn
A Favorite Quote
From The Planet on the Table by Wallace Stevens…
“Ariel was glad he had written his poems. They were of a remembered time Or of something seen that he liked…
What mattered was that they should bear Some lineament or character… Of the planet of which they were part.”
Photographic Influences
Arbus, Kertesz, Moriyama, Lang, Opie, Authors (Austen, Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, Faulkner), Poets (Stevens, Frost, Whitman, Dickenson)
Photographic Education
Studies at University of California, Berkeley and with the print-maker of the late Eugene Smith; Self-Taught; Harvard College, A.B. English Literature, cum laude; Harvard Business School, MBA
Current Reading Material
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, for the second time
Recent Photographic Project
West, created 2009, printed 2010. Can be viewed at http://www.candacegaudiani.com
Most Interesting Assignment or Previous Occupation?
All interesting. All part of the woven texture of who I am.
Project Statement
West continues her exploration of the tensions of place and belonging. She employs a framing device evolved from her earlier works Forty Eight States and Frontier States. Here in West, she frames the passing landscape with hints of curtain, window, and train interior. Each image becomes a theater proscenium, with viewer and photographer in the audience. The curtain is raised on landscapes with long perspectives and the viewer is invited in to the “performance” and distanced from it at the same time. Where do we belong? The train takes on broader meaning. A train is always between destinations, and its passengers are on the inside looking out and passing by. Perhaps in the end we reside many places but belong nowhere.
