Photographer Brigitte Carnochan: Explaining “Beyond the Last Thought”
Photographer Brigitte Carnochan: Explaining “Beyond the Last Thought”
Part of Brigitte Carnochan's "Imagining Then" series, "Beyond the Last Thought" explores the relationship between two complicated histories at different scopes— her family's and Germany's. In this video, Carnochan shares her process behind creating this image.
Brigitte was born in Germany during the Second World War. Her parents separated when she was three. While fighting for Nazi Germany, her father was captured by American troops and remained estranged from her until 1976. Shortly after the war, she and her mother immigrated to the US to begin a new life. When Brigitte was 35, her father finally made contact with her. After reconnecting to her birth father and her family, she spent the next 10 years trying to understand and interpret what she learned. Imagining Then was the product of her journey.
Brigitte Carnochan is a well-respected fine art photographer and an articulate educator, currently teaching at Stanford University. In "Imagining Then," she shares her uniquely personal story in words and memories through a collaged tapestry of historically relevant Platinum Palladium photographs. Acting as much of a historian as an artist, Brigitte takes the odds and ends of old photographs and documents and joins them together to create a richer, meaningful narrative of her family history.
www.brigittecarnochan.com
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Brigitte was born in Germany during the Second World War. Her parents separated when she was three. While fighting for Nazi Germany, her father was captured by American troops and remained estranged from her until 1976. Shortly after the war, she and her mother immigrated to the US to begin a new life. When Brigitte was 35, her father finally made contact with her. After reconnecting to her birth father and her family, she spent the next 10 years trying to understand and interpret what she learned. Imagining Then was the product of her journey.
Brigitte Carnochan is a well-respected fine art photographer and an articulate educator, currently teaching at Stanford University. In "Imagining Then," she shares her uniquely personal story in words and memories through a collaged tapestry of historically relevant Platinum Palladium photographs. Acting as much of a historian as an artist, Brigitte takes the odds and ends of old photographs and documents and joins them together to create a richer, meaningful narrative of her family history.
www.brigittecarnochan.com
PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved.
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