Abstract
Tête-à-Tête is a series of intimate portraits of my two adolescent sons and their friends at home in New York City, begun in the fall of 2005. This work explores adolescence as a liminal state, between childhood and adulthood, and between the feminine and the masculine. Tête-à-Tête is an ongoing series, which reflects the face-to-face of the mother/photographer and the private world of two adolescent sons. Last summer I focused on summer vacation days in France, and last fall back in New York, I began to investigate situations of teen tribal nightlife. My inspiration comes from Dutch painting, especially Vermeer's mysterious domestic scenes and Rembrandt's expressive tableaux. I am also influenced by conventions of cinema, especially the dramatic effects of set lighting.
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