Anna Gaskell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anna Gaskell
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Oct 22, 1969(1969-10-22)
Age	55
Birthplace	United States
Country	United States
Horoscope	Libra

Anna Gaskell Biography

Anna Gaskell is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on October 22, 1969 in United States, United States.

Gaskell’s mother was an evangelical Christian who brought Anna and her brother along on “wild pilgrimages throughout the Midwest,” where they would witness miracles being performed, acts of healing, people speaking in tongues, and other Charismatic Christian practices. She claims that she does not remember anything strange about these acts, “but more a feeling of excitement and a security in the faith that [she] felt from everyone there.” Gaskell says that her work revolves around a similar idea of faith, believing the possibility of the impossible and suspension of disbelief. After studying for two years at Bennington College, she received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992. In 1995, she received her MFA from Yale School of Art, studying under Gregory Crewdson.

In haunting photographic scenes of preadolescent girls, Gaskell alludes to well-known children’s literature, such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which can be found in two of her series: wonder (1996–97) and override (1997). Gaskell made her international debut with the twenty photograph series, wonder (1996–97), the first series Gaskell created after receiving her MFA at Yale University School of Art. wonder, which draws the viewer in with stained-glass coloration intensified by lamination, features two identically dressed Alices photographed together and separately and at oblique angles that recall the disorienting experiences of Alice in Wonderland. For example, in Untitled #1 of wonder, one of the Alices is pictured treading in a pool of her tears, “her body grotesquely distorted by the refraction of light on the water” and in Untitled #2, one Alice leans over the other, plugging her nose, seemingly about to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. These two photographs also demonstrate how Gaskell takes on the role of “unreliable narrator” within her series by her “use of photography as a format which invites the suspension of disbelief, with her codings and fragmentations of the frames exposing the viewer to the inconsistencies and assumptions that are held in place by realist photographic as well as narrative conventions.” Through the use of different sized photographs, Gaskell displays an instability in Alice by referring to the character’s growth spurts and shrinking spells.

Anna Gaskell Net Worth

Anna Gaskell is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anna Gaskell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Anna Gaskell (born October 22, 1969) is an American art photographer from Des Moines, Iowa.

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Grace Glueck, writing in The New York Times in 2004, described Gaskell as an established “maker of spooky, tension-filled feminine fictions”, her work recalling Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. In Glueck’s view, Gaskell’s method is “to create a narrative expectation without fulfilling it”, each picture hinting at a situation or story, provoking the viewer to speculate. Glueck does not necessarily approve of this, calling the process of challenging the viewer to make a story “do[ing] the artist’s work”.

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Gaskell’s half life—drawn from stories such as Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Elizabeth Gaskell’s (no relation) “The Old Nurse’s Story,” and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw—began as an idea for a film installation and evolved into an exhibition combining still and moving images with ten photographs and a film installation. The unnamed central character of Rebecca, a tale from 1938 about an ingénue who goes abroad, marries a middle-aged patrician, and follows him back to his ancestral estate in Cornwall. There the young woman finds the house filled with the memory of the man’s dead first wife, Rebecca, which torments the heroine to the brink of suicide. half life draws from the idea of Rebecca’s presence in the estate and the heroine’s mind. This series explores the human psyche, including the experiences of fear, isolation, and uncertainty. As seen in her previous works, the protagonist of half life is a young woman who finds herself between “the purity of youth and the gradual loss of innocence that comes with maturity.” Differing itself from previous series, the question of identity is pushed to a new level in half life by the almost total exclusion of the main figure. When shown, the woman often has her back to the camera or remains hidden behind her hair. Gaskell uses dynamic camera angles and elaborately decorated interiors in her photographs in half life creating a sense of vertigo or claustrophobia. The accompanying 21-minute film, similar to her piece, Floater (1997), features a woman floating under water in a state of non-being, neither fully dead or alive.