The Photo Reviewpinhole photograph by Willie Anne Wright
When asked to describe the work of Willie Anne Wright, a visitor to her recent 30 year retrospective nearly succeeds with one word: "elegy."
A mournful poem, yes; lament for the dead, not quite, for the subjects of Wright's pinhole photographs, photograms and composite prints are very much alive. Present with all their associations and concomitant life, Wright's images reside in, as Faulkner once wrote about the South, "a land where the past is not dead; it isn't even past."
