Elizabeth Siegfried
Fine Art Photographer
Family with Branches from the series Life After Life: Linking Ancestry with Legacy, 2018
Archival pigment print with stereoscopic print on mylar overlay, 22” x 28”
Artist Statement
“My photographs are permeated with the inevitable unfolding of time. Layered images point to what endures. With haunting references to place and spiritual and generational legacy, the work invites the viewer to look deeply, to contemplate and find resonance with images that seem to exist simultaneously in the past and present. Always there is evidence of beauty with a tinge of sadness and qualities of impermanence and imperfection.”
—E. S.
Feature Projects
Honey’s Kodak Moments
Rediscovered 16mm films shot by the artist’s grandmother become the source material for a contemporary exploration of memory, family, and photographic inheritance.
Life After Life: Linking Ancestry with Legacy
Examines Siegfried’s profound attachment to her ancestral summer home and her devotion to the objects and structures that create a bridge between the past and the present.
Nearly Perfect
What is considered beautiful is often imperfect or impermanent. Discarded and neglected objects suggest the transience of all things and the inevitable passage of time, but all embody a distinctive beauty.
Circus!
An exhibition of photographic works drawn from forgotten 16mm film footage captured by Siegfried’s grandmother in the back lots of the Ringling Brothers Circus between 1927 and 1945.
Termina
A photographic installation, at once personal and universal, that tells the story of Siegfried’s diminishing family tree and contemplates the end of her family’s lineage.
Carolyn
A collection of portraits of Siegfried’s mother taken during her ninety-eighth and ninety-ninth years, culminating in her 100th birthday.
Self-Portraits
Through her self-portraits, Siegfried comments not only on the unavoidable and constant changes that occur to our bodies and psyches, but also on similar changes in the world around us.
Off Season
Off Season explores usually active locations during times of dormancy: quiet spaces where the viewer is uncertain whether something has ended or something is about to begin.
Earlier Work
A collection of individual stand-alone images as well as choice images from prior bodies of work.
—E. S.
Books
Photo Book: LifeLines
LifeLines is comprised of twenty-three self-portraits and images of transformation in Nature. Originally produced as platinum prints, the visual counterpoint between these photographs creates a narrative, subtle in its poetic lyricism and spiritual insight.
Additional Books
Three print-on-demand photo books: Off Season, EXTINCT, and AN HOUR OF THE WOLF: NIGHTMARE QUADRANGLE.