![]() ![]() Discerning viewers will recognize the ornate backdrop behind the young sisters as a reproduction of the very same one before which Van Schaick posed several of his subjects. Sanguinetti sought to photograph her subjects, whom she found by knocking on doors and approaching churches and other community groups, as if this was their singular confrontation with the camera, as it might well have been for Van Schaick’s sitters more than a hundred years ago. In another, an elderly woman wears a pair of spectacles with one clear lens and one dark one having unclasped her wavy white hair, she holds in her lap a hairclip snarled with what, in Sanguinetti’s representation, look like precious strands of spun silver. In one, two sisters are captured in a double portrait: the elder with a curtain of hair almost obscuring her face, her forehead creased with incipient self-consciousness the younger clear-eyed, with a composure not yet compromised by the onset of maturity. ![]() Like the nineteenth-century images that inspired them, Sanguinetti’s portraits combine an occasionally gothic aesthetic with an empathetic sensibility. : Wisconsin Death Trip: 9780826321930: Michael Lesy, Charles Van Schaik, Warren Susman: Libros : Wisconsin Death Trip: 9780826321930: Michael Lesy, Charles Van Schaik, Warren Susman: Libros Omitir e ir al contenido principal. ![]()
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