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Immaculate is a series of photographs of jeunes filles made in the enclosed gardens of private girls schools in small towns in California. These Catholic institutions in Alhambra, San Diego, Monterey and Sierra Madre are all embedded in extensive and luxuriant arboretums which fall away into forests and ravines. Lise Sarfatis photographs brilliantly construct a litany of contradictions and ambiguities concerning the girls identities and states of mind. In the context of these elemental settings the girls abandon themselves or, on the contrary, hold back, only to reveal unsettling details: a hand touching a twig, chipped nail varnish, an uncertain gaze. Sarfatis psychological portraits elucidate the girls immaturity and naivite as they stand at the cusp of womanhood, drawing on the signs of their virginity and their emotional and physical fragility. Lise Sarfati lives and works between Paris and the United States. Her work has been widely exhibited and can be found in numerous prestigious collections. Lise Sarfati joined Magnum Photos in 1997 and became a full Member in 2001. She was awarded grants from both the Fiacre and Villa Medici. Sarfati also received the Prix Niepce in Paris and the Infinity Award from the ICP in New York for her work. It is co-published with steidlMACK, London.

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