Elinor Carucci

Carucci was born in Jerusalem to a family of a North African and Bukhari descent. She graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography and moved to New York City.{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-30|title=Elinor Carucci App|url=https://www.elinorcarucci.com/bio|website=Elinor Carucci}}

She currently teaches in the graduate program of photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.{{cite web|access-date=2023-09-02|title=Elinor Carucci - SVA|url=https://sva.edu/faculty/elinor-carucci|website=School of Visual Arts}}

Carucci told an interviewer that she tries to find universal meaning in things that are personal to her. She admires the work of Mary Ellen Mark and Sally Mann, who embody what she calls two opposite extremes in her own work: Some of her photographs are spontaneous snapshots, like Mark's while other images are carefully staged, more like Mann's.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/studio-visit-elinor-carucci|title = A Studio Visit with Elinor Carucci|website=bhphotovideo.com}}

Carucci's first monograph, Closer, contains her earlier work focusing on immediate family and her closest relationships.{{cite web|access-date=2023-09-02|title=Elinor Carucci: Closer|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6942880/Elinor-Carucci-Closer.html|date=7 January 2010|website=The Telegraph}}{{cite news|first1=Libby|last1=Brooks|access-date=2023-09-02|title=Move closer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/jun/22/weekend.libbybrooks|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 June 2002|issn=0261-3077}}

Her second monograph, Diary of a Dancer (2005), documents Carucci's experience as a professional Middle-Eastern belly dancer entertaining at events like weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs in the five boroughs of New York City. Her husband, Eran, helped her to capture photographs of herself dancing. The images in this series depict Carucci preparing for jobs and applying makeup in dismal looking bathrooms and on subway rides, snapshots of her dancing and images of the people she was entertaining.

Carucci's third monograph, Mother (2013), "documents ten years of New York City-based child rearing." Beginning during the pregnancy of her twins and ending when they turn eight years old, she explores the complex realities of motherhood in images that show her joys and the pains, the beautiful and the ugly, and the love and dysfunctions. Mother also shed light on the sensual and erotic connections between mother and child in photographs reflecting the range of Carucci's experience, from bliss to the less attractive raw moments.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-photo-books-20131110-story.html|title=A year-end spread of bold, inventive photography books - Los Angeles Times|last=Appleford|first=Steve|website=Los Angeles Times|date=7 November 2013|access-date=2018-10-09}}{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-31|title=Elinor Carucci: the mother of all photographers|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10350481/Elinor-Carucci-the-mother-of-all-photographers.html|date=7 October 2013|website=The Telegraph}}

Crisis (2001–2003) narrates a tumultuous time in her marriage. Taking place at a time when her and her husband were working through her infidelity and mind-body induced physical pain and his marijuana usage, these photographs look straight into the darkness of post-arguments, as well as at their tender moments. Carucci has described how photographing this process brought them closer together, as they ultimately demonstrated to each other in the taking of these photographs that their love for one another is held above all else. Photographing was a way of reconnecting.

A Time Lightbox article from 2013 summarizes the work as chronicling

"her tumultuous relationship with her husband and parents through incidents of infidelity (hers) too much dope (her husband’s) and her parents fractious relationship and eventual divorce. The mood was gentle, though, with plenty of high notes; the everyday ebb and flow of relationships were lovingly and lavishly documented, while the larger narratives played out in the background."{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3802764/the-most-intimate-dance-elinor-caruccis-photos-of-motherhood/|title=The Most Intimate Dance: Elinor Carucci's Photos of Motherhood|last=Bright|first=Susan|magazine=Time|language=en-us|access-date=2018-10-09}}

Midlife (2011–2019) chronicles the years of middle of life, a time that is overlooked by our culture and society, especially in women's life. It explores themes of women's bodies and health, intergenerational relationship, love and marriage over decades, children getting older, and brings attention to the beauty and challenges of this period of time in women's life.{{cite news|first1=Laura|last1=Mallonee|access-date=2023-08-31|title=An Artist Takes an Unflinching Look at Her Own Hysterectomy|url=https://www.wired.com/story/elinor-carucci-midlife/|newspaper=Wired|issn=1059-1028}}{{cite news|first1=Kristen|last1=Roupenian|access-date=2023-08-31|title=A Photographer's Intimate Self-Portrait of Womanhood in Middle Age|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-intimate-self-portrait-of-womanhood-in-middle-age|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=4 September 2019|issn=0028-792X}}{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-31|title=Book Review: Midlife|url=https://museemagazine.com/culture/2019/10/24/book-review-midlife|date=24 October 2019|website=Musée Magazine}}

• Closer. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2002. {{ISBN|9780811834940}}.
• Chronicle, 2009. {{ISBN|9780811870443}} . Second edition. With a foreword by Susan Kismaric. 80 photographs.
• Diary of a Dancer. SteidlMack, 2005. {{ISBN|978-3865211552}}.
• Mother. Prestel, 2013. {{ISBN|978-3791348155}}.
• Midlife. Monacelli, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-58093-529-6}}. With a foreword by Kristen Roupenian.

• 1999: Print Room, The Photographers' Gallery, London{{Cite news |title=The Photographer's Gallery |url=https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/sites/default/files/1971-2017_TPGExhList.pdf}}
• 2005: It's me, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzlia, Israel{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-31|title=Elinor Carucci|url=https://www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/en/exhibition/elinor-carucci/|website=www.herzliyamuseum.co.il}}
• 2010: My Children, Centre pour la Fotografie Contemporaine Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon{{Cite web |url=http://www.lebleuduciel.net/index.php?%2Fartistes2%2Felinor-carucci%2F |title=Le Bleu du Ciel |access-date=2019-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506064903/http://www.lebleuduciel.net/index.php?%2Fartistes2%2Felinor-carucci%2F |archive-date=2017-05-06 |url-status=dead }}
• 2014: Mother, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10350481/Elinor-Carucci-the-mother-of-all-photographers.html |title=Elinor Carucci: the mother of all photographers |publisher=Telegraph |date= 7 October 2013|access-date=2016-05-21}}{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/elinor-carucci-mother_n_4098752.html |title=Elinor Carucci's 'Mother' Series Captures The Stunning Highs And Lows Of Being A New Parent (NSFW) |website=Huffingtonpost.com |date=2013-10-15 |access-date=2016-05-21}}{{cite news|first1=William|last1=Meyers|access-date=2023-09-02|title=Inside a Mother's Life and a City's Glamour|url=https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303532704579479351069284072.html|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=4 April 2014|issn=0099-9660}}
• 2018: Getting Closer Becoming Mother; About Intimacy and Family 1993–2012, {{ill|Cortona On The Move|it}} festival, main artist show, Cortona, Italy{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-31|title=Getting Closer, Becoming Mother: About Intimacy and Family. (1993-2012) Elinor Carucci|url=https://www.cortonaonthemove.com/en/traveling-exhibitions/getting-closer-becoming-mother-about-intimacy-and-family-1993-2012-elinor-carucci/|website=Cortona On The Move}}
• 2020: Elinor Carucci – Sheltering in Place: A Photographer’s Diary of Life in Isolation, the gallery of the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO{{cite web|access-date=2023-09-01|title=Elinor Carucci - Sheltering in Place|url=https://ucmgallery.com/carucci/|date=30 September 2020|website=UCM Gallery of Art & Design}}

• 2010–2011: Pictures by Women: a History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 2010 – April 2011{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-31|title=Elinor Carucci - MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/24859|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}
• 2011: Insight, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, August–September 2011. With Alexandra Cool, Jacques Sonck and Elke Andreas Boon.{{cite web|access-date=2023-09-01|title=Insight - Photo Museum Antwerp - Actuphoto|url=https://actuphoto.com/19601-insight-photo-museum-antwerp.html|website=actuphoto.com}}

• 2000: "Thirty under 30 Young Photographers to Watch", Photo District News{{cite web|first1=Conor|last1=Risch|access-date=2023-09-03|title=PDN's 30 2000|url=https://pdnonline.com/features/photographer-interviews/pdns-30-2000/|date=18 March 2000|website=Photo District News}}
• 2001: Winner, Best Young Photographer, Infinity Award, International Center of Photography, New York{{cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/infinity-awards/past-recipients |title=Past Recipients |website=International Center of Photography|date= 16 May 2016|access-date=2016-05-21}}
• 2002: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation{{cite web|url = http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/elinor-carucci/ | access-date = 23 May 2016 | publisher = John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | title = Elinor Carucci}}
• 2010: Artists' Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York{{cite web|url = http://current.nyfa.org/post/64115045228/meet-a-nyfa-artist-elinor-carucci | date = 14 October 2013 | access-date = 23 May 2016 | publisher = New York Foundation for the Arts | title = Meet a NYFA Artist: Elinor Carucci}}

Carucci's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Museum of Modern Art, New York: 2 prints (as of 31 August 2023)
• Jewish Museum, New York{{cite news|title=Recent Photographs by Elinor Carucci at James Hyman Gallery|url=http://artdaily.com/news/35426/Recent-Photographs-by-Elinor-Carucci-at-James-Hyman-Gallery-|access-date=21 February 2017|publisher=artdaily.org}}
• Brooklyn Museum{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/9981/objects|title=Brooklyn Museum|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org|access-date=2019-03-26}}
• Houston Museum of Fine Arts{{Cite web|url=https://www.mfah.org/art/detail/79997?returnUrl=/art/search?artist=Elinor+Carucci|title=My Mother's Lips {{!}} The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston|website=www.mfah.org|access-date=2019-03-26}}
• Harwood Museum of Art, New Mexico{{Cite web|url=http://collections.harwoodmuseum.org/view/objects/asimages/People@1474?t:state:flow=61718966-a63a-4c7d-b45c-7728d883ccb2|title=Collections :: The Harwood Museum of Art :: Taos :: University of New Mexico|website=harwoodmuseum.org|access-date=2018-10-09|archive-date=2018-10-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010060715/http://collections.harwoodmuseum.org/view/objects/asimages/People@1474?t:state:flow=61718966-a63a-4c7d-b45c-7728d883ccb2|url-status=dead}}
• Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp{{Cite news|url=https://www.fotomuseum.be/en/exhibitions/archive/archive-2011.html|title=Archive 2011 - Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen|work=Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen|access-date=2018-10-09|language=en|archive-date=2018-10-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010060728/https://www.fotomuseum.be/en/exhibitions/archive/archive-2011.html|url-status=dead}}

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• {{Official website|www.elinorcarucci.com}}

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