WEATHERING TIME
WEATHERING TIME
Nancy Floyd has been photographing herself since 1982, with the aim of taking a photo by
day. The resulting project, consisting of over 2,500 images, is a
meditation on the passage of time, loss and aging of the body
feminine. Weathering Time is the winner of the first ICP/GOST award of the first
photo book. Interested in the aging of the female body, the passage of the
time and loss, Floyd created a body of over 2,500 images over the
last four decades. "It's not just the body that changes: the
Fashions and hairstyles evolve; animals come and go; machines
writing, analog clocks and corded telephones disappear;
and finally, cinema gives way to digital and the computer replaces the
darkroom. Although Weathering Time is a personal archive and
I use the archives to address issues of the female body,
family snapshot and loss, I am also interested in the
production of images that suggest some of the experiences of my generation.
Indeed, the photographs highlight cultural, technological and
physical events that have occurred over the past thirty-five years - from my
youth on the cusp of old age. Nancy Floyd (born 1956) grew up in Texas.
She has been exhibiting for over thirty-five years and is professor emeritus at the
Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in
Atlanta. The series “Weathering Time” was exhibited at the Blue Sky Gallery,
Portland, OR, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; Whitespace, Atlanta, Georgia; And
Flux Projects, Atlanta. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum
of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid,
Spain; the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art; and the California Museum of
Photography, Riverside, California, among others, and is part of the collections
from the Center for Creative Photography, High Museum of Art and Lightwork. She has
received an Aaron Siskind Research Fellowship in 2018, a CUE Art Fellowship
Foundation in 2016, a grant to support the Society's Future Focus project
for Photographic Education 2015 and a John Gutmann Research Fellowship in 2014.
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