/Anne Diamond McNevin
Anne McNevin
“Each Unhappy Family Is Unhappy In Its Own Way”
photomontage
23″ x 28″
2022
$500
This is part of a body of work that visually narrates aspects of my family life, a visual memoir. After scanning letters, old and current photos, as well as my own descriptions of impactful events, I layer and manipulate them in Photoshop to create these pictures.
Anne McNevin
Choices
Inspired by: Kenro Izu, Blue #1010B Constance Bigelow, 1945 Debutante (Miss Meriwether Lewis Cowgill)
photomontage
21″ x 28″
2025
Thinking about a woman’s right to choose and how it affected my life, I pondered the power and necessity of that responsibility. Inspired by the pictures of the two young women, I wondered why they presented themselves the way they did. What were they thinking, feeling? Many choices, regardless of difficulty, yield opportunities for learning and growth. With this photomontage I visualized the internal process of an experienced woman, like myself, though looking like Jill Watts, being both stymied and engaged by life’s choices. This image is a composite of photos taken of Jill inside Higgins Armory empty display cases.
Anne McNevin
Glacial Rocks, Peppercorn Hill, Upton, MA #1
photography
16″ x 20″
2022
Peppercorn Hill in Upton, MA is a remarkable jumble of boulders deposited by glaciers more than ten thousand years ago and it’s practically in my back yard. These boulders evoke long lost mysteries from our world’s past.
Anne McNevin
The Stories We Tell
photomontage
28″ x 21″
2023
This is part of a body of work depicting the way I understood and assimilated parts of my formative years. The ambiguity that photomontage allows gave me the means and the room to visualize the uncertainty and occasional beauty of those days. I scanned old written material and photos which I layered with my own.
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Anne McNevin
A Dog and His Man
digital photography
6″ x 10″
2018
Different interests, equal passion. From a moment in Paris.
Anne McNevin
Hope
photomontage
21″ x 28″
2024
As we are approaching another Presidential election I thought of all the Presidents elected in my lifetime. I created this photomontage using pictures of 17 of them. Most of them presided in my lifetime.
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Anne McNevin
The Recipe Club
Inspired by: Justin Walker, Daddy Bruce
photomontage printed on Hahnemuhle photo rag metallic glossy fine art paper
22″ x 27″
2024
Responding to Walker’s vision of taste and appetite in “Daddy Bruce” I layered photos of Jill Watts preparing bread with scans of recipes from a cook book prepared by my friend Cindy Braun before she died. Well worn covers of old books provided a background. Contrasting the disembodied young woman’s legs in “Daddy Bruce”, Jill’s arms surround a mixing bowl while making bread. Rather than Walker’s dehumanized objectification of appetite and taste, these women’s culinary creations provide sustenance to others. Cindy was young, Jill is not, both are well aware of the power of good food.