Polly OOP

Polly OOP"Polly Joseph and Debbie Fleming Caffery are women of southern Louisiana. Together they formed an intimate, isolated bond initiated by photography and matured into an unlikely friendship. The details of Polly's life, present and past, became a collection of fables Caffery drank in like the dust filled air and the deep, articulated shadows that surrounded them. Caffery's photographs transmit mystery and truth through the story, body, and home of Polly:

Photographers include George Hurrell

"Across the specific differences among Goicolea’s works

together with its enemies

His camera fixed the instances of his observations

and Rudolf Valentino

sexy kids but we always felt bad because we thought we were ugly at the time

"I analyze the pictures

Pompeii-like stillness

A Collection in Lieu of Memoirs

after his father photographed the seminal book

watercolor

52 duotone plates