Patty Carroll Photography
American, b. 1946
Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970s. Her images are characterized as vivid and boldly colored. Where her earlier works include typologies and portraiture, her new work symbolically expresses the domestic roles of women via the series “Invisible Women.” Carroll earned a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design from the University of Illinois and, in 1972, she graduated with a master of science in photography from the Institute of Design at IIT, Chicago.
Since receiving her MS in photography, Carroll has been teaching photography at universities worldwide. She has been a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College and the Royal College of Art in London, among other schools. Carroll’s photography has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Art Institute in Chicago, White Box Museum in Beijing, and the Photographers Association in Ningbo, China.
Carroll’s work has received many merits, publications and grants. In 2014, she was listed in Photolucida’s “Top 50” after her most recent series, “Anonymous Women.” The series became a published book by Daylight Books in 2016. This is the latest of her five photographic books. Carroll’s work has also been published worldwide by organizations like the Huffington Post, Dallas Morning News and the British Journal of Photography. In 2003, the Illinois Arts Council awarded her the Artist Fellowship Grant for her work.
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Artist: Patty Carroll
Pushing Daisies
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll is known for saturated color photographs. Her project, Anonymous Women addresses the complicated relationships of women and domesticity.
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Red Red Wine
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Kissing Frogs
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Plantlady
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Birthday Blues
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Seventy
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of woman and home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she per...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Ramblin’ Rose
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Bird Told Me, from the series Anonymous Women - Mannequin, Dove, White, Blue
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Bird Told Me by Patty Carroll is a color photograph of a woman dressed in white and blue sitting in a chair, surrounded by white birds figures and patterns.
Archival Pigment Print
I...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Rogue Gallery
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Apples and Oranges - Limited Edition, Fruit, Kitchen, Red, Woman, Interior
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Apples and Oranges by Patty Carroll depicts a woman sitting in her kitchen, decorated in red and orange hues. Fruit fills the room as she holds a scale, appearing to compare her appl...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Booky
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Panther - Limited Edition Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Interior, Decor
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Panther is a color photograph of a staged panther themed room, created by photographer Patty Carroll. This scene consists of a mannequin, representing a woman, laying on a couch surr...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Cutting the Cord by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Cutting the Cord by Patty Carroll is a 22 x 22 inch archival pigment print, available in an edition of 15 This sheet size of this photograph is 30 x 30 inches, and the image size is ...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Cooking the Goose - Limited Edition Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Kitchen
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Cooking the Goose is a limited edition color photograph depicting a chaotic kitchen scene. A woman is stuck in an oven, her arms reaching out from th...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Mad Mauve - Limited Edition Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Pink, Fabric
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Mad Mauve by Patty Carroll presents a monotoned scene. A figure reclines in a mauve chair, draped with mauve fabric that falls from the ceiling. The figure...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Accessories
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed by Patty Carroll
Paper size: 30 x 30 in., Image size: 22 x 22 in.
From the series, Anonymous Women
Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and ...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Vanitas
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Cowgirl
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Pieced
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tiki Tacky
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hawaiian Hangover
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of women and the home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she performs domestic trickery. The photographs are vignettes of women hidden behind drapes containing one figure and drapery, with an occasional prop or piece of furniture. In this series, “Reconstructed,” the woman becomes part of her domestic trappings and activities. I am creating narrative, full-size, still-life images comprised of many objects. “Reconstructed Series” is a commentary on our obsession with collecting, accumulating designing, and decorating, inviting hilarity and pathos about our relationship with “things.” They are installations made in the studio for the camera that play with color, space, and scale, and use household objects as subject matter. We are making a life-size box in the studio as a substitute for the home. A mannequin substitutes for the woman, who is camouflaged among her domestic objects in the space. The final outcome is a photograph and/or a short video.
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago provided the basis of all of my work, and I continually seek to come to terms with it. I grew up when suburban life was idealized; the home was a place of perfection and harmony, free from the harsh realities of the city, without crime, or messy interiors, where everyone’s drapes and sofa matched, where people were normal, without dark little secrets. It was at a time when the “woman’s place...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Pie Eyed
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed by Patty Carroll
Paper size: 30 x 30 in., Image size: 22 x 22 in.
From the series, Anonymous Women
Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and ...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Rosey
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 10
Archival pigment print
38 x 38 in.
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Patty Carroll
From the series, Anonymous Women
Patty Carroll is an American photographer who h...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Absinthe Absent
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Puzzled
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hold Her Horses
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Panther
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Boho Boo hoo
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cutting the Cord
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of women and the home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she performs domestic trickery. The photographs are vignettes of women hidden behind drapes containing one figure and drapery, with an occasional prop or piece of furniture. In this series, “Reconstructed,” the woman becomes part of her domestic trappings and activities. I am creating narrative, full-size, still-life images comprised of many objects. “Reconstructed Series” is a commentary on our obsession with collecting, accumulating designing, and decorating, inviting hilarity and pathos about our relationship with “things.” They are installations made in the studio for the camera that play with color, space, and scale, and use household objects as subject matter. We are making a life-size box in the studio as a substitute for the home. A mannequin substitutes for the woman, who is camouflaged among her domestic objects in the space. The final outcome is a photograph and/or a short video.
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago provided the basis of all of my work, and I continually seek to come to terms with it. I grew up when suburban life was idealized; the home was a place of perfection and harmony, free from the harsh realities of the city, without crime, or messy interiors, where everyone’s drapes and sofa matched, where people were normal, without dark little secrets. It was at a time when the “woman’s place...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
World on Her Shoulders
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Christmas Awry
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reading Green
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Money Honey
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Comically
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cat Lady
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Protected
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Scrapbooking
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Money Honey
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Halloween Hell
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Jello Mellow
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Red Flags
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Newsie
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Woman On a Pedestal
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Records
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red Bed
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cocoon
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mad Mauve
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eat Crow
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Saddled Down
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mad Mauve
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shopping
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Written Off
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Veggies
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Pinko
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Flying Food
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
WFH
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Shell Shocked
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
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Archival Pigment
Golden Years
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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