Angela Cappetta

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Angela Cappetta is an American photographer.

Early life

Cappetta has Italian heritage and had a multi-generational upbringing in New Haven, Connecticut. [1] [2]

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Photography

In the 1990s, she often got up early in the morning to walk the neighborhood of her home in the Alphabet City area of Manhattan and photograph with a 6x9 format camera. [2] Her work includes diaristic self-portraits. [3]

Cappetta's photographic series "Glendalis" revolves around a Puerto Rican girl named Glendalis, whose family shared multiple floors of a building on Stanton Street. [2] The series follows Glendalis and her family for a decade, beginning in the 1990s when Glendalis was nine years old; it documents milestone events such as Glendalis's Sweet 16 and her cousin's quinceañera. [1] [4] Cappetta has acknowledged parallels between Glendalis's life and her own childhood. [2] In 1999, some of her images were included in the group show Common Boundary at the Center for Photography at Woodstock ("CPW") curated by Sandra S. Phillips. [5] The series was not designed to follow Glendalis from the outset, but that she became the nucleus of the photo series as time went on. Cappetta says the works are not a coming of age. She views them instead as a representation of family, community, and how relationships evolve over time. [2]

Cappetta received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2000, [6] and completed fellowships at the MacDowell Colony in 2000, 2004 and 2010. [7] Prints from her Glendalis series are held in the collection of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, New York, [8] and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1 print). [9]

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  4. ↑ Koopman, Bella (2024-09-02). "Angela Cappetta's New Photobook Explores Girlhood, Community And Universal Experience". 10 Magazine (British magazine) . Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  5. ↑ "Common Boundary: curated by Sandra S. Phillips". Center for Photography at Woodstock. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
  6. ↑ "NYFA: New York Foundation for the Arts: Directory of Artists' Fellows: 1985-2013" (PDF). New York Foundation for the Arts. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Angela Cappetta Archived 2018-02-08 at the Wayback Machine ". MacDowell Colony. Accessed 17 February 2018.
  8. ↑ "Angela Cappetta, Glendalis". Center for Photography at Woodstock . January 2019.
  9. ↑ "Search Results | V&A Explore the Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
  10. ↑ "Angela Cappetta's New Book Reveals the Hidden Heart of NYC's Lower East Side". W Magazine. 2024-12-18. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  11. ↑ "These photos capture what it's like to grow up on the Lower East Side". Dazed. 2024-09-03. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
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