Judith Fox
dal 8/1/2010 al 5/2/2010
Segnalato da
8/1/2010
Judith Fox
Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer's, photographs and text by Judith Fox. Three years into their marriage, Fox's husband, Dr. Edmund Ackell, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Over the course of the next ten years, Fox watched as the man who used to perform surgery, fly planes, and run universities, forgot how to turn on the coffee maker, place a phone call, or remember what his wife had told him two minutes earlier. Fox dedicates this book to other caregivers in an effort to reduce their sense of isolation, and to help de-stigmatize the disease.
Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of I Still Do: Loving and Living
with Alzheimer’s, photographs and text by Judith Fox. This poignant and powerful
traveling exhibition is fully illustrated in a book published by powerHouse, October
2009, with foreword by Roy L. Flukinger, the Senior Research Curator of Photography
at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas). Accompanying
this exhibition is an in-depth interview by Terry Gross with Judith Fox on NPR’s Fresh
Air.
Transcripts are available online as well as a downloadable podcast. Following its
showing at Andrea Meislin Gallery, I Still Do will continue to travel to FiftyCrows
Foundation in San Francisco and the Southeast Museum of Photography
Three years into their marriage, Judith Fox’s husband, Dr. Edmund Ackell, was
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Over the course of the next ten years, Fox
watched as the man who used to perform surgery, fly planes, and run universities, forgot
how to turn on the coffee maker, place a phone call, or remember what his wife had
told him two minutes earlier. Fox dedicates this book to other caregivers in an effort
to reduce their sense of isolation, and to help de-stigmatize the disease.
“This is a lovely book about a devastating problem—Alzheimer’s. The pages are like
poetry and the photos say more than words. Anyone who has cared for a loved one
with Alzheimer’s will relate to and appreciate every one of these pages.”
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Judith Fox is a photographer, writer, and advocate for the more than 35 million people
with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers worldwide. She started exhibiting her fine art
photography in 2002 and has had solo and group shows in Manhattan, Los Angeles and
in Virginia. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) and the
Harry Ransom Center, as well as private and corporate collections throughout the
United States and Europe.
Opening Reception January 9th, 3-5 pm
Andrea Meislin Gallery
526 West 26th Street, New York
free admission