“Casting, staging and directing are all part of Susan kae Grant’s activity in producing the bodies of work she has shown from the late 1970’s to present. Her photographs have a cinematic quality, a pushed, slightly over-the-edge dimension that leads the viewer to consider the other side: the fantastical, the dark side, the dream state, the traumas and humor that reside in life. The work is largely autobiographical and is a synthesis of her journal writings, as well as literature and film. Gender issues and relationships are imbedded in the ideas that spawn the images.” (Whitenack 2007, p. 29)

The images that make up the early black and white works were created from pre-visualized journal sketches and shot on location with a medium format film camera. All images in the series are 10 ”x 10” gelatin silver-prints matted to the scale of 16” x 20”.

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