Cornwall Photographer to Discuss Her Artistic 'Affliction' in Sharon Event Today

Cornwall Photographer to Discuss Her Artistic 'Affliction' in Sharon Event Today "Photography is the affliction of my family," said Catherine Hanf Noren of Cornwall, as she stood before a display of cameras used by her family to record its history over more than a century. All the photographs in the exhibit have been produced in the second millennium and are fine-art depictions of scenes and objects, but an autobiographical thread informs the work. Ms. " The show opened May 5 and continues through July 5. "I have taken objects from my family [for use in] some of these photographs," she said. Walking a visitor through the exhibit this week, she pointed to two images of flowers-one the tracery of Queen Anne's Lace, the other a red splash of Angelica. Wallach, born in Westphalia in 1878, was a great lover of German folk art and founded the "Museum fuer Volkskunst" in Munich before fleeing Hitler's growing threat in 1938. After settling in Lime Rock he continued to produce textiles, including the examples that presaged the work of his granddaughter. His textiles also seem eerily echoed in another image-this one of a vine-covered "Child at Play" sign that she reprinted in a half-dozen colors. "In my personal history, the lure of photography as a gateway to truth has been intense for as long as I can remember," she wrote in her artist's statement. Ms. at the museum. Noren will present a Gallery Walk and Talk tomorrow (Saturday) at 3 p. Noren concluded at the end of a video based on her book about her family, "The past must be linked to the present if there is to be a future. Noren's own eye, created with the latest in digital technology. Cornwall Photographer to Discuss Her Artistic 'Affliction' in Sharon Event Today Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 13/06/2012