Nancy Rexroth is best known for her series entitled “Iowa in Ohio,” in 1976. Rexroth shot this series using a Diana camera, which was a plastic camera made in the 1960’s. Rexroth attempts to convey rural “mid-western life” in both Iowa, the place she grew up, and in Ohio, the place where she now lives. Additionally, each photograph measures approximately 4” x 4.”
The combination of the vintage, low-tech style of the photographs, and their actual size, gives this series an intimate and imaginary feel. Rexroth’s choice to use a Diana camera was precisely for this point. Rexroth shot this series in this particular style in order to capture the imaginary dimension of remembering one’s childhood memories.
Although I did not use a Diana camera to shoot these photographs, instead I used a piece of women’s pantyhose to cover the enlarger lens. This helped to give my images a blurred, and hopefully imaginary look.
Photographs have always acted as a means for remembering old memories. My goal was to create images that not only emulated the work of Nancy Rexroth, but also took on a feeling of nostalgia. I wanted my images to look as though they could be found in an old box in someone’s attic that had been stored there for years.
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