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Martine Fougeron: After Prom (from the Tête-à-Tête Project)

Presented by Gallery 339 at Gallery 339

November 12, 2010-January 29, 2011

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Gallery 339 is pleased to present Martine Fougeron’s After Prom, the latest chapter in her Tête-à-Tête Project. In 2005, Fougeron began photographing her sons, presenting some of the subtlety and beauty of daily life through a series of informal portraits. Ultimately the project broadened to consider the relationships between the sons and among their circle of friends. Capturing intimate and unguarded moments, Fougeron created a remarkable document of teenage life. Speaking on NPR, curator and critic Charlotte Cotton called it “one of the best biographical stories that photography has crafted in the 2000s”, and New Yorker photo critic Vince Aletti said that “Fougeron’s pictures have a lovely looseness and spontaneity, but they never feel like snapshots. Color energizes the work and adds to its sensual undertow.” With After Prom, Fougeron closes the adolescent phase of Tête-à-Tête, examining a key rite of passage—the post-prom party. Fougeron’s images from this event evoke the abandon and the ambivalence of a moment when the familiar, comfortable relationships of adolescence have begun to slip away.