Emerging Artists 2008

Emerging Artists 2008

MARTINE FOUGERON

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Martine Fougeron is an observer with an intelligent perception for detail. In her Tête-à-Tête series she portrays the daily lives of her adolescent sons, documenting through subtle gestures their incremental passage into adulthood. As such, her photos of the boys lounging around their homes in Greenwich Village and the south of France invoke the work of Nicholas Nixon and Nan Goldin. While collaboration with her subjects is inevitable, Fougeron, 53, manages to capture spontaneous moments balanced by a quiet intimacy that is rarely observed in imagery of male adolescents. Formerly a perfumer, Fougeron is dedicated to photographing her sons until they are grown. -- D.K.C.