Elinor Carucci

Elinor Carucci (born June 11, 1971) is an Israeli-American Fine Art Photographer. She is based in New York City.

Carucci has published three monographs to date; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013) and Midlife (2019) While maintaining a photography practice, Carucci has also taught at Princeton University and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

In 2001, she was awarded the ICP Infinity Award and in 2010 a Guggenheim Fellowship. Carucci’s work has been included in solo shows at Edwynn Houk Gallery, and James Hyman in London.

Life

Carucci graduated in 1989 from Rubin Academy High School of Dance and Music in Jerusalem where she majored in Music. She then served in the Israeli Army for two years from 1989 to 1991. After serving she graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography and moved to New York City that same year, where she now lives with her husband, Eran Bendheim, and their two children.^{[citation needed]}

She currently teaches at the graduate program of photography at School of Visual Arts while continuing her personal fine art photography projects. Currently, she is returning to photographing her children and their social cycles as teenagers and working on a project about mid-life.

Her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews and many more publications.

As put in a B&H Studio Visit with Carucci, her work consistently dives into the personal, yet always with the goal of finding universal meaning. Her photographs reflect qualities of the snapshot home-photo-album aesthetic, yet also that of the theatrically staged image. In this, she melts boundaries between the two extremes of Nan Goldin and Sally Mann, two of her greatest inspirations, as described in ARTnews article published in November 2006 by Edwynn Houk and in the B&H Studio Visit with Carucci.