Julie Blackmon’s first monograph transforms the familiar chaos of family life into richly imagined photographic tableaux. Inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish genre painting, particularly the unruly households of Jan Steen, Blackmon blends personal experience with carefully constructed fiction. Children, domestic objects, and unexpected incidents populate compositions that are funny, unsettling, and full of narrative possibility. Featuring 43 photographs, an essay by Regina Hackett, and an interview by Alison Nordstrom, Domestic Vacations introduces the distinctive visual world that has become Blackmon’s signature.
