Doug DuBois "All the Days and Nights"
Higher Pictures
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The exhibition will include a selection of photographs from Doug DuBoisʼ “family photos” taken over a twenty-five year period and done in two major phases. Doug DuBois takes us into his own familyʼs home to ponder the alienation and intimacy that prevails through a series of powerful portraits of his parents, siblings, nephew, as well as still-lifes and interior scenes. The occasional photograph taken outside the family domain heightens the sense of enclosure and of something inexorable. DuBois is the sincere but unseen seer, and it is of course his absence/presence that puts (perhaps at some personal risk) the private realm and the bonds of affection under such intense scrutiny. DuBois does not chronicle family history nor record the rituals of family life, the holidays and birthdays and so forth. To be sure, we catch a glimpse of a Christmas past, but we only see the decorations before the wreckage and after. Each photograph in the series is its own, and the course of events is not so much what concerns DuBois, as the unfolding flow of discrete mundane moments, the fleeting gestures, and the oblique vantage points– in the way which we spend most all our days and nights.
[Image: Doug DuBois "Lise In Pajamas, Ithaca, NY" (2005) digital c-print 24 x 20 in.]
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Schedule
from October 29, 2009 to December 05, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-29 from 18:00 to 20:00
Book signing for the Artist's book by the same name.