Object Details
Artist
Meghan Boody
Date
2006
Medium
Fujiflex print mounted to aluminum
Dimensions
30 × 40 inches (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired through the Professor M. H. Abrams and Ruth Abrams Purchase Fund
Object
Number
2009.023
Meghan Boody has been using digital imaging technologies in her work since the mid-1990s. She was on(…)
Meghan Boody has been using digital imaging technologies in her work since the mid-1990s. She was one of the first photographers to successfully employ Photoshop in her photographic tableaux, interweaving many layers of source images that she either shoots on location or in the studio. The Lighthouse and How She Got There project (2006–08) tells the story of an inmate of a nineteenth-century asylum who escapes when the building burns down. Inspired by Victorian novels that feature orphans as their protagonists, the title of this photographic fantasy is derived from the first line of Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), and like it and other nineteenth-century novels, Boody tells stories of girls on the verge of becoming women. (“Staged, Performed, Manipulated,” curated by Andrea Inselmann and presented at the Johnson Museum January 24-June 7, 2015)
