Elinor Carucci: Midlife

Elinor Carucci's work is on view in Chicago in the exhibition "Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency," which explores the psychological, physical, and emotional realities people encounter in the years leading up to, during, and after fertility.

“Midlife,” published in October 2019, features photographs taken by Elinor Carucci and includes a foreword written by Kristen Roupenian. In the photo book, Carucci highlights...

M iddle-aged women have long been treated as the punchlines of jokes in popular culture – as the crazy witches at the end of the...

I n 2019, creativity in photobook publishing continued to flourish with outstanding works from an international group of independent and established publishers. This list, chosen...

When did Elinor Carucci enter my apartment and take photos of my life? This was exactly how I felt looking at her new book, Midlife,...

In Kristen Roupenian's forward she wrote, 'But what is true is that signs of aging, in women, are treated as though they ought to be...

The idea that women will become invisible when they reach middle age isn’t so much a universal truth but a veiled threat—'a kind of campfire...

In Midlife, a deeply personal project spanning a 7-year time scale published by Monacelli Press, Carucci presents her journey through motherhood, marriage, illness, love and...

'In her introduction to Closer, Carucci wrote that “the camera was…both a way to get close, and to break free. It was a testimony to...

The subject matter of most photos in Carucci’s series “Midlife” is unremarkable: a smudge of lipstick; the knuckles of a hand; a gray hair; a...