ARTIST STATEMENT
Throughout my career my work has addressed the confluence of family, memory and technology and the resulting loss, absence and violence inherent in the photographic process. In my mind there are two classifications of photography, things that people want to see and contemplate, family, objects, and places of beauty. And things nobody really wants to look at, moments where the individual or the culture has turned their backs, averted their eyes, moments filled with embarrassing truths, historical atrocities: categories of conflict, death and disfigurement. At one end of the spectrum lies conventional beauty and at the other, personal beauty. My work is filled with differing definitions of beauty: in sublime beauty, in terrible beauty. I think the most interesting kind of beauty resists conventions and is often contradictory or questionable, and more often than not, it’s usually something you have to dig for a little.
Margaret Stratton is a Professor and currently the head of the Photography Department in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
All Photographs are editioned in groups of 15 and are available as either toned gelatin silver prints or archival inkjet on Hannamule Photo Rag
Sizes are:
11x14
16x20
20x24
24x30
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