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"Out of portraits, Doug DuBois makes memoir. Memoir is autobiographical but not to be confused with autobiography—it need not be comprehensive in its telling of a life." —Donald Antrim

In an interview with Alec Soth, DuBois said, "Individual photographs can be like little plot fragments, yanked out of large, complex stories. We can describe the plot, more or less, by looking at the photograph, but we invent the story out of our own imagination and experience."

My Sister’s Bedroom is part of Doug DuBois' series All the Days and Nights, a collection of sixty-two photographs of his family taken over twenty-five years. DuBois began photographing his family in 1984, prior to his father's near fatal fall from a commuter train and his mother's subsequent breakdown and hospitalizations. A palpable tension in the work resonates with emotional immediacy, presenting viewers with an nuanced rumination on family relations and what it means to subject personal relationships to the unblinking eye of the camera.

Regarding his work, DuBois remarks, "In my most intimate photographs there is a detachment that speaks of my isolation. I no longer see my family as an assured source of comfort but as a part of the confusion of my adult life. In the conflict between intimacy and detachment, I feel the loss of my childhood family."

This is a terrific opportunity to collect the work of this influential artist. A stunning print, My Sister's Bedroom encourages the viewer to recall the imagination and discovery of childhood.