Wendy Snyder MacNeil

In much of her work, Wendy MacNeil questions the adequacy of photography to document personalities or relationships. She often incorporates portraits from family albums or identification cards alongside texts by or about the subject of the work to reveal the limitations of conventional portraiture. In this image she addresses the desire for connection through photography by emphasizing the sense of touch with a closely cropped view of her grandmother’s hand. The warm tonality of platinum palladium printing and the texture of vellum evoke the delicacy of her grandmother’s skin.