Gay Block
Meredith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, ME; Meredith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York

Meredith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, ME; Meredith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York

© Gay Block

Meredith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, ME; Meredith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York
Meredith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, ME; Meredith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York
ArtistAmerican, born 1942
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Meredith Fiedler, Camp Pinecliffe, Harrison, ME; Meredith Fiedler Dennes, New York, New York
  • from the series Camp Girls
Date1981/2006, printed 2007
MediumInkjet prints
DimensionsImage (.A): 23 × 28 7/8 in. (58.4 × 73.4 cm)
Sheet (.A): 24 × 30 1/2 in. (61 × 77.5 cm)
Image (.B): 23 × 28 3/4 in. (58.4 × 73 cm)
Sheet (.B): 24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number2022.36.10.A,.B
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In 1989 Gay Block photographed the young women spending the summer at Camp Pinecliffe, where Block and her daughter had each been campers. Block approached each subject individually, creating relaxed and telling portraits. “I loved the innocence and promise in their faces,” Block wrote. “I saw in them what I imagined as their future selves.” The series took on new meaning 25 years later, when the artist tracked down those same campers to re-photograph and interview them. The resulting diptychs reveal the time elapsed between carefree camp days and adulthood, the changes life brought for each of them, and the core character that remains.


ProvenanceThe artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico; given to MFAH, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso: [signed, titled, dated and editioned 1/10]

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1981/2006
Inkjet print
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Inkjet prints
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1981/2006, printed 2007
Inkjet print
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1981/2006, printed 2007
Inkjet print
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1981/2006, printed 2007
Inkjet print
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Inkjet prints
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Inkjet print
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1981/2006, printed 2021
Inkjet print
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