Catherine DeLattre grew up in Pennsylvania. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she studied archaeology at Kent Sate where a course in basic photography was a requirement for recording in archaeological digs. That led her to the Art Photography program at Purdue University in Indiana. Although the emphasis was on black and white photography, she discovered color
work of contemporary photographers such as William Eggleston, Joe Maloney, Joel Meyerowitz, Jan Groover, Eve Sonneman and Joel Sternfeld. After teaching for a while, she moved to New York's Upper West Side. The eccentric, brightly colored outfits of the women living in her neighborhood were to be her first lasting impression of the streets of New York. Fascinated by these ladies, mostly elderly, who dressed up and put on make-up for the slightest outing in town, DeLattre set about photographing them with a TLR Mamiya. This work occupied her almost daily from 1979 to 1980, giving rise to an important series of portraits.
Driven by color, DeLattre's street photography captures the atmosphere of an era, while at the same time bearing witness to the vulnerability of a passing generation.
Abraham & Wolff
Abraham & Wolff opened its doors in October 2022 at 12, rue des Saints-Pères in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. This original model of gallery and art concierge offers a challenging, open and curious exhibition program, inspired by the respective histories of the Jocelyn Wolff and Samy Abraham galleries, a contemporary drawing cabinet, as well as technical and material expertise in the presentation and preventive conservation of works of art for collectors.