I thought is was quite apt to post this as it merges my last two tasks together into one. Family photography and self portraits.So, lets say you have no photographs of your family or ancestors? Well why not impersonate said family members and take self portraits to create a family album of your own?Thats exactly what Rafael Goldchain did in his album named I AM MY FAMILY.In this series he impersonates and captures the image of each family member.
The self-portraits in I Am My Family are detailed reenactments of ancestral figures that can be thought of as acts of “naming” linked to mourning and remembrance. I Am My Family proposes a language of mourning through self-portraiture and through the conventions of family portrait photography. In reenacting ancestors through a relationship of genetic resemblance, and through the conventions of the portrait photograph, the self-portraits in I Am My Family suggest that we look at family photographs in order to
recognize ourselves in the photographic trace left by the ancestral other.
Self-Portrait as
Motl Yosef Goldszajn Liberman
b. Warszawa, Poland 1902
d. Santiago de Chile, 1959
Self Portrait as Malka Ryten
b. Lublin, Poland, 1884
d. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1974
Self Portrait as Pola Baumfeld
b. Ostrowiec, Poland
d. Poland, early 1940's
Self Portrait as Naftuli Goldszajn
b. Krasnik, Poland, early 1800's
d. Krasnik, Poland, late 1800's
Motl Yosef Goldszajn Liberman
d. Santiago de Chile, 1959
d. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1974
d. Poland, early 1940's
d. Krasnik, Poland, late 1800's
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