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...pictures in "All the Right People" document the lives of the upper class, taking us from southern plantations to fancy department stores. Norfleet sometimes presents the "right people" in isolation and other times juxtaposed with servants and sales clerks...
...excluded from the lavish world that Norfleet has put on display. Two women's backs block the foreground. All we catch is the smoke of their cigarettes trailing up into the sky. One woman, her skin as taught as plastic surgery might allow, stares virtually through us. Her sunglasses shade her from the sun and the world as the viewer knows...
...photographs in this series, and many of her series, Norfleet takes great care to carefully record, subject, name, date and location--as if she were doing an objective study of class relations. Yet somehow these photographs seem staged. Everyone is in place in this world captured by Norfleet; expressions, clothing and martini glasses are all just so. But is she revealing her subjects to us, or has she created her own class of sorts...
...surprising that Norfleet's photographs come across as ethnographies (whether staged or not). Norfleet herself discovered photography only after decades of work as a social anthropologist. A fixture at Harvard for more than 25 years, she began as an anthropologist and eventually migrated over to the visual arts. As a Senior Lecturer and Curator of Photography, she has taught extensively in the VES department and founded the Archive of American Social History in 1975, bringing together more than 40,000 American photographs...
...Norfleet's anthropological eye shows through in her penchant for natural, as well as human classifications. In her "Manscapes with Beasts" series, Norfleet inverts the idea of the traditional landscape and documents animals in various more-or-less human environments (or "Manscapes...