Angela Cappetta
Angela Cappetta is an American photographer.
Early life[edit]
Cappetta has Italian heritage and had a multi-generational upbringing in New Haven, Connecticut.[1][2]
Photography[edit]
In the 1990s, she often got up early in the morning to walk the neighborhood of her home in the Alphabet City area of Manhattan and photograph with a 6x9 format camera.[2] Her work includes diaristic self-portraits.[3]
Cappetta's photographic series "Glendalis" revolves around a Puerto Rican girl named Glendalis, whose family shared multiple floors of a building on Stanton Street.[2] The series follows Glendalis and her family for a decade, beginning in the 1990s when Glendalis was nine years old; it documents milestone events such as Glendalis's Sweet 16 and her cousin's quinceañera.[1] Cappetta has acknowledged parallels between Glendalis's life and her own childhood.[2] In 1999, some of her images were included in the group show Common Boundary at the Center for Photography at Woodstock ("CPW") curated by Sandra S. Phillips.[4] In December 2022, The New Yorker published an article about Cappetta and this project, stating that the series was not designed to follow Glendalis from the outset, but that she became the nucleus of the photo series as time went on. Cappetta says the works are not a coming of age. She views them instead as a representation of family, community, and how relationships evolve over time.[2]
Cappetta received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2000,[5] and completed fellowships at the MacDowell Colony in 2000, 2004 and 2010.[6] Prints from her Glendalis series are held in the collection of CPW[7] and in the collection of the New York Public Library (as of August 2018).[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Whitfield, Zoe (2022-10-28). "Photographing a 90s coming-of-age on the Lower East Side". i-d.vice.com. Archived from the original on 2023-01-08. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ a b c d e Zatarain, Ana Karina (30 December 2022). "Watching a Girl's Life Change on the Lower East Side". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
- ^ Feinstein, Jon (24 January 2019). "These Photographers Prove Self-Portraits Are Far More Than Just Selfies". Vice. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
- ^ "Common Boundary: curated by Sandra S. Phillips". Center for Photography at Woodstock. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "NYFA: New York Foundation for the Arts: Directory of Artists' Fellows: 1985-2013" (PDF). New York Foundation for the Arts. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ Angela Cappetta Archived 2018-02-08 at the Wayback Machine". MacDowell Colony. Accessed 17 February 2018.
- ^ "Angela Cappetta, Glendalis". Center for Photography at Woodstock. January 2019.
- ^ Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Archived 2018-03-19 at the Wayback Machine. New York Public Library, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Interview on Lenscratch
- Interview at aPhotoEditor
- Interview on Edge of Humanity
- Interview on Gwarlingo
- The Hair Exhibition Lenscratch
- Catalog at New York Public Library
- The Family That is not Mine Blind Magazine
- Coming of Age on the Lower East Side i-D
- Watching a Girl's Life Change on the Lower East Side [www.New Yorker.com/culture/photo-booth/watching-a-girls-life-change-on-the-lower-east-side// The New Yorker]
