About Elinor Carucci
Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-born American photographer and educator, based in New York City, noted for her intimate portrayals of her family's lives, emotions, relationships, and identity. She has published five monographs; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013, Midlife and The Collars of RBG. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and at Hunter College in New York.
Carucci's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum and Brooklyn Museum in New York, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Harwood Museum of Art in New Mexico. From 1993 to 2006, she also worked as a professional Middle Eastern dancer.
