Melancholy & Perfection

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Photographer

Marianne Smith Dalton
Date of Photograph

2013
Technical Info

Digital
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Website

https://mdaltonart.com

My background as a painter informs the way I see and interpret the world around me. There is a constant interplay between form, color, light and shadow while references are drawn from art history. Paintings by Lucas Cranach, and Giorgione, whose works have both a beauty and crucial provocative element that I find enticing, beckon. My intent is to present images rooted in art history while touching upon a personal desire to face my own mortality. My ultimate goal is that these images will raise a shared bond emphasizing that we each are a heartbeat away from our historic past.

Biography

I am a storyteller at heart. My background as a painter combined with my obsession with anthropological histories, early film and the collecting and displaying of ephemera drive my vision in photography. I am also the director, archivist and curator of The SGA Foundation, committed to the creative arts legacy of the late Sarah G. Austin through educational exhibitions and loans of her work.
Awards

1. Juror’s Honorable Mention Award - Water /The Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO, Curated by Jennifer Murray, Executive Director, Filter Photo. (2018) 2. Best in Show Award - Contemplation of a Dystopian Future/Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design Phila. PA Curated by Robert Chaney, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila. ” (2017) 3. Honorable Mention/Fine Art Photography - International Photography/Lucie Awards Series: Color-Blind. (2015) 4. Honorable Mention/Fine Art Photography - International Photography/Lucie Awards Portrait: George (2015) 5. The Photo Review/2015 Competition: The Body Issue/Inclusion Online Web Gallery, Editor, Stephen Perloff 6. Finalist, Inclusion in Book: Best of Photography 2014, Photographer’s Forum Magazine. 7. Honorable Mention/Fine Art Photography - International Photography/Lucie Awards Series: Melancholy and Perfection (2013)