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Alessandra Sanguinetti

Alessandra Sanguinetti
Born1968 (age 56–57)
NationalityAmerican
Known forphotographer
Websitealessandrasanguinetti.info

Alessandra Sanguinetti (born 1968) is an American photographer.[1][2] Sanguinetti is a member of Magnum Photos and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Life and work

El Collar/The Necklace, 1999 by Sanguinetti

Born in New York City, Sanguinetti moved to Argentina at the age of two and lived there until 2003. Currently, she lives in California.[3]

Her main bodies of work include The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams (2010)[4] and The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (2020),[5] a more than twenty year long documentary photography project about two cousins as they grow up in the countryside of Buenos Aires; On the Sixth Day (2005), which explores the cycle of life and death through farm animals' lives;[6] Sorry Welcome (2013), a meditative journal on her family life; and Le Gendarme sur la Colline (2017), an intuitive, lyrical journey through France; and Some Say Ice (2022), a luminous and unnerving book on death and the mid-west.

She has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2007.[7]

Publications

Books of work by Sanguinetti

  • The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams.[8]
    • Contact Sheet 120. Syracuse, NY: Light Work, 2003. ISBN 9780935445305.
    • Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1590052693. With an essay by Gary Hesse.
  • On the Sixth Day. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2005. ISBN 978-1590050705.
  • Sorry Welcome. Oakland, CA: TBW, 2013. Subscription Series #4, Book #2. Edition of 1500. Sanguinetti, Christian Patterson, Raymond Meeks and Wolfgang Tillmans each had one book in a set of four.[9]
  • Le gendarme sur la colline. Co-published by Aperture and Fondation de l'entreprise Hermès, 2016.[10]
  • The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer. London: Mack, 2020. ISBN 978-1-912339-97-6.[11]
  • Some Say Ice. London, Mack, 2022. ISBN 978-1-913620-71-4.[12]

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

References

  1. ^ Romig, Rollo (June 24, 2010). "Slide Show: Alessandra Sanguinetti's The Adventures of Guille and Belinda". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  2. ^ "Alessandra Sanguinetti's best shot". The Guardian. December 20, 2007. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  3. ^ "Bio". alessandrasanguinetti.info. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  4. ^ Romig, Rollo (June 18, 2010). "Off the Shelf: The Adventures of Guille and Belinda". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  5. ^ Abel-Hirsch, Hannah. "Alessandra Sanguinetti explores the passage of time through one enduring friendship". www.1854.photography. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  6. ^ Enriquez, Mariana (October 21, 2023). "Novelist Mariana Enríquez on Alessandra Sanguinetti's 'brutal, beautiful' photographs". Financial Times. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  7. ^ Magnum Photos Photographer Portfolio
  8. ^ "Teenage dreamers: growing up in rural Argentina – in pictures". The Guardian. September 17, 2020. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  9. ^ "Subscription Series 4". TBW Books. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  10. ^ "Alessandra Sanguinetti's Le Gendarme sur la Colline". Bomb. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  11. ^ MacLennan, Gloria Crespo (September 25, 2020). "Guille y Belinda, del despertar de la adolescencia a la madurez". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  12. ^ Colberg, Jörg. "Some Say Ice". Conscientious Photography Magazine. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  13. ^ a b "Alessandra Sanguinetti". peabody.harvard.edu. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  14. ^ "Alessandra Sanguinetti". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  15. ^ "Alessandra Sanguinetti: Gardner Photography Fellow, 2009 Archived August 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine". Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  16. ^ "2009 Photography Grant – Sanguinetti Portfolio – National Geographic ...". National Geographic. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  17. ^ "Yossi Milo Gallery | The Life that Came". Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  18. ^ "Alessandra Sanguinetti - Aperture Foundation NY". Aperture. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  19. ^ "This Land". Pier 24. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  20. ^ "Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum". International Center of Photography. July 14, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022.