Father Touches My Hair

Elinor Carucci

2001

Photograph of a man sitting on a couch next to a girl and touching her hair.
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Elinor Carucci

b. 1971

The work of Israeli photographer Elinor Carucci has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, and ARTnews. Her photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, as well as galleries in New York and London. Carucci has received numerous awards, including an ICP Infinity Award (2001) and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City and teaches at the School of Visual Arts.

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