Marna Bell says, ""Closer to Home" is a collection of photographs taken between 1970 and the present, in Coney Island. The series focuses on a feeling of nostalgia--longing for an idealized time when life seemed simpler.

Childhood amnesia left me with vague, disjointed memories of my youth. In the 1970s, I started taking photographs of Coney Island as a way to recapture those lost memories. In the reclaimed visions, everything seemed perfect. These images represent semi-fictionalized narratives; some dimly recalled memories and some imagined. In this fantasy world of the past, I found excitement and escape, just as it was when I was riding on the merry-go-round with my father."

Marna Bell was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Syracuse University in painting. Bell has exhibited nationally in museums, galleries and colleges.

She has been published in Black and White magazine; exhibited in group shows at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Inst., Utica, NY, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, and The Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC. Her book “Hudson Past/Perfect” is in the artist book section of the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City. 

www.marnabell.com
 

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POETRY OF SHADOWS HOME:
https://nyphotocurator.com/the-poetry-of-shadows-sandrine-hermand-grisel  

FIRST PLACE:
https://nyphotocurator.com/the-poetry-of-shadows-sandrine-hermand-grisel/first-place-la-sombra-by-sylvia-de-swaan/1  

SECOND PLACE:
https://nyphotocurator.com/the-poetry-of-shadows-sandrine-hermand-grisel/second-place-winners-james-ritchie-night-lights-no-36-fuel-anastasia-davis-untitled-house-----/1  


HONORABLE MENTIONS:
https://nyphotocurator.com/the-poetry-of-shadows-sandrine-hermand-grisel/honorable-mentions-lorenzo-formicola-denise-la2015-heather-barnes-textures-1-jo-ann-chaus-window-light-slim-blanks-untitled-1-frank-lynch-morning-sun-in-mrauk-oo-myanmar/1  

BEST SERIES:
https://nyphotocurator.com/the-poetry-of-shadows-sandrine-hermand-grisel/best-series-marna-bell/1  

EXHIBITION #1
https://nyphotocurator.com/the-poetry-of-shadows-sandrine-hermand-grisel/exhibition-1/1  

EXHIBITION #2
https://nyphotocurator.com/the-poetry-of-shadows-sandrine-hermand-grisel/exhibition-2/1  

EXHIBITION #3
https://nyphotocurator.com/the-poetry-of-shadows-sandrine-hermand-grisel/exhibition-3/1