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Summary: Capturing the facades and inner lives of solo livers
Review: Using a 4x5 camera with strobe over six months, Adrienne Salinger has captured the candid, intimate lives of fifty of the over 26 million Americans who live solo. Some of the subjects live alone by choice and others by circumstance. Some will be alone in the short term, others, you expect, will live alone forever. Growing up, Salinger loved to read about Pippi Longstocking, the character who lived alone by her own rules. Living solo, she knew, means that everything remains where you put it when you return home, you can eat over the sink, and you can swig beverages from the bottle. The essays that accompany each photo illuminate the subject with great intimacy. Eight of my favorite photos were those of Amy, who sits lonely in a bedroom of lively, bold colors; Bruce, a manager of retirement homes, who sits before a large painting of a chinese takeout container and discusses identity, estrangement, and keeping kosher; Chika, and aspiring musician in a run-down room; Dan, a former employee of Oprah, stands in his kitchen and talks of self-esteem and past Jewish boyfriends; Elvira, age 88, a former model talks of her red convertible from her regal yet sensible plastic coated chair; Eva, age 86, stands erect in her immaculate kitchen and talks, maybe non chalantly, of Auschwitz and her husband's recent suicide; Joan, in a red couch of luxury talks of widowhood and starting over; and Joan, standing before a large closet and bags of shoes talks of a Long Island childhood.
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Summary: Capturing the facades and inner lives of solo livers
Review: Using a 4x5 camera with strobe over six months, Adrienne Salinger has captured the candid, intimate lives of fifty of the over 26 million Americans who live solo. Some of the subjects live alone by choice and others by circumstance. Some will be alone in the short term, others, you expect, will live alone forever. Growing up, Salinger loved to read about Pippi Longstocking, the character who lived alone by her own rules. Living solo, she knew, means that everything remains where you put it when you return home, you can eat over the sink, and you can swig beverages from the bottle. The essays that accompany each photo illuminate the subject with great intimacy. Eight of my favorite photos were those of Amy, who sits lonely in a bedroom of lively, bold colors; Bruce, a manager of retirement homes, who sits before a large painting of a chinese takeout container and discusses identity, estrangement, and keeping kosher; Chika, and aspiring musician in a run-down room; Dan, a former employee of Oprah, stands in his kitchen and talks of self-esteem and past Jewish boyfriends; Elvira, age 88, a former model talks of her red convertible from her regal yet sensible plastic coated chair; Eva, age 86, stands erect in her immaculate kitchen and talks, maybe non chalantly, of Auschwitz and her husband's recent suicide; Joan, in a red couch of luxury talks of widowhood and starting over; and Joan, standing before a large closet and bags of shoes talks of a Long Island childhood.
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