Faces of the Past: Unidentified Woman

Photomontages by Corinne Diop

This article is coming out in the Harrisonburg Daily News Record on Friday, January 19th. I will reprint here in full at a later time.

November 17, 2023-December 31, 2023
Beverly Street Studio School Gallery
22 West Beverly Street, Staunton, Virginia

by Alexandria Searls

Photography allows us to time travel, not only from the present to the past, but also to possible futures. Artist Corinne Diop explores time, loss, and collective memory in her new series, “Unidentified Woman,” works anchored in 19th Century photographs of Mathew Brady (c. 1822-24-1896), archived at the Library of Congress. Mathew Brady, now best known for his Civil War photographs, operated portrait studios in New York and Washington, D.C.

(To continue, check online for the DNR article on Friday…)