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Artwork Description

Catherine DeLattre grew up in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, a small town near the heavily industrial area of Pittsburgh. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she studied archaeology at Kent State where a course in basic photography was a requirement for recording in archaeological digs. That led her to the Art Photography program at Purdue where the focus was on black-and-white, but where DeLattre became more interested in color under the influence of her teacher Vern Cheek, and the then contemporary color work of photographers such as William Eggleston, Joe Maloney, Joel Meyerowitz, Jan Groover, Eve Sonneman and Joel Sternfeld. After a series of teaching gigs that took her from Rockport, Maine to Poughkeepsie, by 1979, DeLattre had saved enough money to move to New York City where she found a $200/month sublet on the Upper West Side and a part time job teaching darkroom at ICP. DeLattre’s interiors from Monongahela, saturated, closely cropped, and intensely focused, show not only the idiosyncratic fashion trends and color choices of the 1970s but also reveal the oscillation between personal memento and period style into haunting and precisely observed vignettes.