Saturday, March 08, 2008

The Los Angeles Times

For those of you who did not have a chance to read Friday's LA Times, here is an excerpt from an article written about Holly's photography work in LA:

-- "The Age of Innocence" at DNJ groups the work of four lesser-known photographers who address the vexed condition of childhood. The show holds some nice surprises, particularly in the work of Pamela Mayers-Schoenberg and Holly Andres...Andres, from Portland, Ore., presents large color tableaux based on childhood memories as filtered through the influence of the staged photography of Gregory Crewdson, among others. She is a filmmaker too, and the pictures read as carefully orchestrated stills, set pieces hinting at deeper dramas. The most affecting images feature girls rehearsing prescribed notions of womanhood. One girl studies a color-coordinated array of paper-doll-like cutouts, another sets a table with a classic meal of molded jello and canned corn. The girls aspire toward grace but seem slightly melancholy, as if visibly burdened by the constraints of societal expectation. -- written by Leah Ollman

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