Photographer, filmmaker, and educator, Tanya Marcuse joins Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton to discuss several shows and bodies of work including, Woven/Deer – An Ecological Tapestry at CPW in Kingston NY, Book Of Miracles at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls NY, and her book Deer (Roman Nvmerals/MW Editions). This conversation goes to so many places of influence and practices, we talk about death and mourning, religion and transcendentalism, pre-Renaissance use of space, bookmaking as a translation of language, and teaching photography at Bard College.
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Tanya Marcuse (b. 1964) is an American photographer most known for her large-scale photographs that explore the imperiled natural world. Her projects use increasingly fantastical imagery and elaborate methods of construction to explore cycles of growth and decay and the dynamic tension between the passage of time and the photographic medium.
Marcuse began making photographs as an early college student at Bard College at Simon’s Rock before studying Art History and Studio Art at Oberlin College. She earned her MFA from Yale University, where she was awarded the George Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography.
Her work is held in public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Marcuse is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peter S. Reed Grant, an American Scandinavian Fellowship, and two MacDowell Fellowships.
The book form plays a significant role in Marcuse’s practice. Her published books include Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies (Nazraeli Press, 2012), Fruitless | Fallen | Woven (Radius Press, 2019), Ink (Fall Line Press, 2021), and Portent (Nazraeli Press, 2024).
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