Staged photographs address the social constructions that define how people relate to each other
The bilingual publication Archipelago focuses on the contradictions of human relationships across countries, generations, and genders. Yolanda del Amo explores how our longing for closeness coexists with our desire for individuality. The relationship between the people in her images defines itself through the setting that conversely becomes a psychological extension of the characters. Archipelago raises questions about class, gender, intimacy, and social connectedness in our times. Del Amo draws inspiration from real life by working with sitters who are her friends or family and adds a theatrical dimension through her directorial approach, resulting in a fusion of reality and fiction.
Photographer Yolanda del Amo (b. 1967) lives in New York City. Her award-winning work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major collections.
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Yolanda del Amo (b.1967, Madrid) is a Spanish-born, New York-based artist who works in photography. Her work looks at individuals through a sociological and psychological lens, exploring how we live and connect with ourselves and others, and how we shape the world around us. Del Amo received her Master of Fine Arts, Photography (Honors) from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence in 2004. Her award-winning work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major collections.She is currently Professor of Photography and Digital Media at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Jean Dykstra is a photography critic and former editor of photograph magazine. She has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Broadcast, and numerous exhibition catalogues and monographs.
Victoria Hesse Goldberg (1936-2025) was an American photography critic, author, and photo historian. She wrote extensively on photography and its social history for publications including The New York Times, American Photo, and Vanity Fair, and received numerous awards for her contributions to the field.
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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Archipelago presents a photographic meditation on human relationships as a series of emotional islands-separate, fragile, and bound by an invisible geography. Working within the tradition of tableau photography, Yolanda del Amo creates carefully composed, narrative-rich scenes reminiscent of a tableau vivant. Each image is methodically arranged, with precise attention to gesture, colour, and spatial relationships. At once intimate and strikingly distant, each tableau examines contradictions within relationships across countries, generations, and genders, reflecting on how a deep longing for closeness can coexist with an equally strong desire for individuality, and how intimacy is shaped, strained, and ultimately defined by social and psychological distance. Although Del Amo draws inspiration from real life, working primarily with sitters who are friends or family members, she introduces fictional elements that blur the boundary between reality and artifice. In her images, relationships are inseparable from their environments: domestic interiors, landscapes, and architectural spaces operate as psychological extensions of the figures within them, shaping emotional dynamics and revealing unspoken tensions. The work raises timely questions about class, gender, intimacy, and social connectedness, positioning personal relationships within broader social structures. From the text Islands in the Sea of Life by Vicki Goldberg Then she rearranged people, dictating where they sat or stood as well as their postures and positions. (Having taken many a dance lesson, she was particularly precise about poses, gestures, and carriage.) She told her subjects where to look and what to think about. These people became actors for a mere moment-a moment that will most likely last beyond a lifetime, in a photographic theatre set arranged by a photographer who is the playwright, director, and stage manager. Colour plays a central emotional role throughout the series, while an ever-lingering silence emerges as a defining presence. And yet, despite their stillness, the photographs retain a sense of possibility and transformation. As Jean Dykstra observes in her text Alone Together: As in the theatre, roles can change, characters can evolve, silences can be broken, and that prospect is in these photographs, too. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9783969002285
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