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 on-going series naturally staged, which reflects the face-to-face of the mother-photographer and the private world of two adolescent sons. This summer I focused on summer vacation days in France, and this fall, back in New York, I began to investigate situations of teen tribal night life which I will explore all throughout 2007. 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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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 on-going series naturally staged, which reflects the face-to-face of the mother-photographer and the private world of two adolescent sons. This summer I focused on summer vacation days in France, and this fall, back in New York, I began to investigate situations of teen tribal night life which I will explore all throughout 2007. 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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- Submitted to ArtBase: Saturday Dec 1st, 2007
- Original Url: http://www.martinefougeron.com
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Work Credits:
- Martine Fougeron, creator
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