“Unveiling Layers of Reality: Can ‘Snapshots’ Redefine the Art of Visual Storytelling?”
Kate Carroll De Gutes uses a photograph of four little years all wearing the same floral sundress as a point of entry to the photograph that came before, in “Girl by Default.” Of course, there’s the metaphor. What if all photographs were discussed in terms of the shot that came before? And is ‘before’ the same as ‘first?’
Snapshots, like the empty scrapbook of my grandmother’s, has captured a body of work–a record—of what has been left behind. These authors have interwoven imagination with fact, speculation with fiction. They have dipped into poetry and conversation. Regarding matters of “truth,” one can never know with any degree of certainty.
