Landmines (praying mantis)
1994 · Gelatin silver print
11 × 27 3/4" (27.9 × 70.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Eileen Cowin
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972–1973
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Eileen Cowin is an American photographer and video artist born in 1947 who constructs staged narratives using family members, domestic interiors, and theatrical lighting to examine the gap between performed identity and emotional truth. Working primarily in color photography and video since the 1970s, she constructs scenes that reference cinema and advertising while disrupting their codes of intimacy and trust. Her work interrogates the family as both site of belonging and psychological rupture, deploying ambiguous gestures and cropped compositions that withhold narrative resolution. Cowin's formal precision and psychological acuity mark a distinctive contribution to postwar American photography's reckoning with representation and domestic life.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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