The Hands of My Friends

Gorgeously designed, printed in Italy, and featuring essays by DeLuise and dance historian Felicia McCarren, The Hands of My Friends is the first monograph by photographer Regina DeLuise. Drawn to the ineffable and the curious nature of the real, DeLuise works with a large-format 8x10 camera and the Platinum/Palladium printing process. Her luminous imagery explores the visual complexities and everyday poetry of contemporary experience through portraiture, landscape, and still life.

Drawn to the ineffable and the curious nature of the real, DeLuise works with a large-format 8x10 camera to produce luminous imagery that explores the visual complexities and everyday poetry of contemporary experience through portraiture, landscape, and still life. DeLuise is moved by the photograph’s uncanny ability to embody the depth and richness of human perception and experience. Her images reveal a great love of the medium, an embrace of light, circumstance, and the beauty and mystery of the quotidian. Emphasizing the etymological root of the word photography as drawing with light, and the collaborative nature of making photographs, The Hands of My Friends represents four decades of elegant and tender images.

Regina DeLuise is an artist, photographer, and educator whose work is represented in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and SF MoMA. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, and the Bogliasco Foundation. She is Professor Emerita at the Maryland Institute College of Art. DeLuise is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC.

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