Arista Slater-Sandoval earned her BFA in photography from Corcoran College of Art and Design and an MFA in Fine Art Photography from Lesley University. Slater-Sandoval also completed a 5-month Teachers Assistance and residency program in New York City at the Center for Alternative Photography. While in grad school, she pursued issues in communication, identity, love and romance, and taught alternative photographic processes.
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Lines And Lineage
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Arista-Slater-Sandoval selects Lines and Lineage photographs by Tomas van Houtryve, published by Radius Books, Santa Fe, USA, 2019, as Book of the Week.
"When parents and grandparents share stories with us that have been passed down from generation to generation, it illuminates and connects the past with the present. The act of photography collapses time in a similar manner. Preserving an image places the index in the past; conversely, creating an image enables the viewer to conceptualize it in the perceived present. Lines and Lineage, by Tomas van Houtryve, examines the reverberations of history through the present via families, land, and notions of identity.
Van Houtryve uses a historical photographic process from the mid-1800s, allowing the annexation of the present moment by an American history whose people and land issues are anything but antiquated. Photographed using the wet plate collodion process, we are greeted with highly detailed, stark portraits juxtaposed by landscapes of the US / Mexico border from the early 1800s. Location and identity are immediately important, as each image is accompanied by a descriptive caption that hints to history and genealogy. Requisite essays on subject matter further educate the viewer on the history of border disputes between the United States and Mexico."—Arista-Slater-Sandoval Read more
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