Shot exclusively in the pre-gentrified blocks, fields, and buildings of the Lower East Side, the family photographed in this book occupied a multigenerational tenement house on Stanton Street. Their story is told through a protagonist named Glendalis. I was raised within a family system similar to hers, surrounded and embraced by an ever present cast of relatives and friends. Like me, she was the youngest, and, much as I did, whispered out in the voice of a last-born — the messenger of a family.
This work is informed by my own beginnings. I perceive it as a search for my own girlhood alongside larger themes of family and community; the relationships a person nurtures and how they transform along with us through time.
I was an independent child. My nuclear family’s age gaps allowed me to raise myself; a feral, Gen X kid. I was engulfed by my enormous family, and yet, most of the time, nobody even knew I was there. It is important to mention that in spite of the notion that I created a beatific family narrative, like mine, the reality was far from serene. Clues of this are hidden in the pictures. Crime, incarceration, gangs, and death are parts of the culture of certain neighbourhoods, and no family there is immune to their trauma.
Angela Cappetta: Glendalis: The Life and World of a Youngest Daughter
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
Author: Angela Cappetta
Publisher: L'Artiere
Publication Date:
2024
Language: English
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