Sleeping Beauty silas-finch while it was happening

while it was happening

"It kills me to look at my old photographs of myself and my friends

This collection is comprised of portraits of famous personalities: some alone–captured in the threshold between the private and the public

" — Mark Morrisroe

Sleeping Beauty silas-finch while it was happeningPhotography was quickly adapted to the social rituals and customs of nineteenth century America, and among these institutions was the memorial portrait. until the advent of photography, this portrait was a painting and was primarily an upper class phenomenon. With the widespread use of the camera, nearly everyone could afford a post mortem portrait, and for the next half century these portraits were a mainstay of American's commercial photographers.