In Margaret’s own words . . .

“I long ago abandoned television news in favor of the satisfyingly tactile experience of reading the newspaper at my kitchen table, a ritual I have held to despite the cost and impracticality. Yet there were days during the initial year of the Covid pandemic when I let those daily papers pile up in my gravel drive — days that included hard rainfall and the heavy tires of delivery trucks. Rescuing the flattened and sometimes soggy wads, I invariably felt pangs of guilt. Opening the newspaper became an experience I more often dreaded than savored, a predictable fall down a rabbit hole of tumultuous events, heroic struggles, and historic failures. And when I did read them, which I almost always did, I could not help but give voice to my interior battles. Eventually, I began to write my rage, my puzzlement, my frustration, and my shock directly into the hydra-headed headlines, stories, and photographs.

The resulting series operates as a personal diary of sorts. Looking back and viewing them collectively, they seem also to provide a kind of cumulative portrait of the time during which they were created, of our common hopes and our common nightmare of a year that changed everything.”

These signed and numbered limited edition archival fine art prints are masterfully printed by photographer Alex Harris in collaboration with Margaret. The extraordinary reproduction fidelity gives the illusion that these are the three dimensional originals. Each limited edition fine art print is signed and numbered by Sartor, and features a custom embossed stamp. Editions are strictly limited to 10 prints on fine art paper, and the price increases by $125 when the midway point of the edition has been reached. 

Margaret has a suggested framing option for these works which we can execute for $250. Details and images of the flat profile black metal frames can be shared if interested. Additionally our Broad Street neighbors Craven Allen Gallery/House of Frames (the best frame shop in these parts), extends a ten percent discount on all works purchased from our galleries.

Margaret Sartor is a writer, curator, and visual artist who lives in Durham. Her books include Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum 1897–1922 (with Alex Harris), What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney (with Geoff Dyer), and the New York Times best-selling memoir Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets, and Growing Up in the 1970s. Sartor’s photographs and essays have appeared in numerous books and publications, among them are The Paris Review, Aperture, The New Yorker, Black: A Celebration of a Culture by Deborah Willis, and, most recently, Visible Spectrum: Portraits from the World of Autism by Mary Berridge. Her photographs are in permanent collections including: the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. As a curator, Sartor has worked with the Nasher Museum of Art, the International Center for Photography in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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