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PHOTO COURTESY GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM For much of his career, photographer Carl Chiarenza made collages from ripped paper and other bits of detritus and photographed them, resulting in quietly powerful abstract images such as the 1990 gelatin silver print, Untitled 280, seen here.
A lot has changed for photographer Carl Chiarenza since the 1950s, when as a teenager he was a valet parker at a new museum then called the George Eastman House. In those days, he spent time photographing places in and around Rochester, honing his talent and sharpening his eye for things that most people miss. All these years later, his life’s work in pictures is on display at the same institution where he once parked cars.
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Elsa Voelcker said her mother Kathryn was “impossible to photograph.” But as her mother approached her final days, Voelcker knew she wanted to capture some of those raw moments before her mom passed. She found one, a photograph of her mother’s hand wearing a ring that belonged to Voelcker’s great-grandmother, particularly moving.
“I took it in her last hours of life,” Voelcker said. “It was powerful.”
She has shared that photograph with countless students over her teaching career at both Franklin Pierce University and Saint Anselm College to show just how impactful a camera in hand can be.