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The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter
The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter

The Model Family by Tealia Ellis Ritter

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Intergenerational love, loss, trauma and joy are explored in a project mining the ambiguities of memory, through thirty years of the artist photographing her family.

Ellis Ritter’s first monograph The Model Family loops and deconstructs family photographs of the past and her own contemporary images, in the process confronting head-on the ambiguity of photography and its role in memory and identity. However, far from being a space of nostalgia, The Model Family explores family dynamics with unflinching detail: death, birth, conflict, divorce and sexuality mix matter-of-factly alongside conventional, aspirational nuclear normality: pets, marriage, smiling faces, deep summer evenings. In Ellis Ritter’s circular conception of the family, imperceptibly oscillating between the past and the present, the artist explores how the images of those closest to you are also often the most slippery, sliding just out of reach.

  • 172pp, 200 x 250 mm
  • 140 photos
  • Debossed OTA-bound sewn softcover with tip-in and flaps
  • text by Lisa Taddeo
  • ISBN 978-1-912719-33-4