Book details

  • Genre:photography
  • Sub-genre:Individual Photographers / Monographs
  • Language:English
  • Pages:148
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798997353902

The Documentary Photography of Mary Motley Kalergis

By Mary Motley Kalergis

Overview

A fifty-year retrospective of documentary photographer Mary Motley Kalergis, bringing together 120 photographs from twelve portfolios exploring family, community, race, culture, identity, and belonging. Combining photographs with the voices of her subjects, the book traces a lifetime devoted to understanding the bonds that connect people across differences of generation, circumstance, and experience.
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Description

he Documentary Photography of Mary Motley Kalergis: A Fifty-Year Retrospective brings together 120 photographs from twelve portfolios spanning five decades of documentary work. Drawn from nine previously published books as well as unpublished photographs, magazine assignments, and film work, the collection follows Kalergis's continuing exploration of the bonds that connect individuals, families, and communities. Beginning with intimate photographs of her own young family, Kalergis gradually widened her lens to childbirth and motherhood, immigrants building lives in America, marriage, adolescence, adoption, interracial relationships, and the people and communities of Charlottesville. Other work ranges from newspaper and magazine assignments to movie sets, jazz musicians, and foxhunting. Across these very different subjects runs a persistent concern with identity and belonging—how people form connections across differences of race, culture, generation, and circumstance. Kalergis's documentary method is as much about listening as looking. She frequently interviewed the people she photographed, allowing their own words to accompany their portraits. The result is a form of documentary storytelling in which subjects are not simply observed but given an opportunity to describe their lives in their own voices. Taken together, the photographs form both a record of changing American life and a deeply personal body of work created over the course of one photographer's lifetime. They return repeatedly to enduring questions: What binds people to one another? What happens when those bonds are tested or broken? And what does it mean to belong?
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About The Author

Mary Motley Kalergis is an author, photographer and interviewer, whose work bears witness to the bonds that connect individuals, families, and communities. Her published books include Foxhunters Speak (Derrydale Press), Considering Adoption (Atelerix Press), Love In Black and White (Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing), Charlottesville Portrait (Howell Press), Seen and Heard: Teenagers Talk About Their Lives (Stewart Tabori, and Chang), With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage (The Chrysler Museum of Art), Home of the Brave (E.P. Dutton), Mother: A Collective Portrait (E.P. Dutton), and Giving Birth (Harper and Row).   Her photographs are featured in numerous anthologies and collections including Aperture's Mothers and Daughters, Pantheon's Generations, Stemmle's In Their Mother's Eyes, National Geographic's Star-Spangled Banner, Fawcett's In Celebration Of Babies, and Andrews McMeel's Waiting for Baby, Reflections, and The Enduring Circle of Love. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; The Burden Gallery the Neikrug Gallery and the International Center of Photography in NYC; The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia; the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida; The San Antonio Museum of Art; The Field Museum of Chicago; the Museum Fur Photographie in Stuttgart, Germany and the Diaframma Kodak Galleria in Milan, Italy.   Photographs by Mary have also appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times, People, Time, Newsweek, Glamour, Ladies' Home Journal, Seventeen Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Marie Claire (France), The Guardian (London), and Camera Manuchi (Japan). Mary taught at the University of Virginia School of Continuing Education and the International Center of Photography in New York and has served as "special stills" photographer on movie sets, including Long Walk Home, and Cousin Bette.   She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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