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A Game of Chess, 1986
A Game of Chess, 1986

Black and white photographs on alternating black & white dotted background. .Images of statuary and monuments that refer to a losing game of chess. Accordion bound in a paper sleeve. Published with a grant from WSW and the NEA. 
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Respecting My Elders, 2013
Respecting My Elders, 2013

Portraits of prominent American artists and writers over the age of 80, with information about and words of wisdom from everyone pictured. Funded by a crowd-sourcing grant overseen by UnitedStatesArtists.org. Introductory essay by Marion Winik; design by Renee Rockoff.
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NYC Squares: Museums & History, 2017
NYC Squares: Museums & History, 2017

Pairs of images in sequence. Get it here →

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NYC Squares: On the Street, from the Car & Underground, 2017
NYC Squares: On the Street, from the Car & Underground, 2017

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East Harlem Diptychs, 2013
East Harlem Diptychs, 2013

Pairs of images in sequence. A catalogue from an exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery, June-July 2017.
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Al Mutanabbi Street Lament, 2013
Al Mutanabbi Street Lament, 2013

Xeroxed self-portraits collaged with art historical images from Iraq. Made as a response to the 2007 bombing of a bookstore on that street in which 30 people were killed and over 100 people wounded.
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Pocketbook of Drag Queens, 2008
Pocketbook of Drag Queens, 2008

Photographs of waitresses, bartenders and performers at Lucky Cheng's restaurant, in New York City's East Village, 1996 - 2001. Black and white images on black background, white type.
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Dead Men Circa 1881, 2009
Dead Men Circa 1881, 2009

Dead men, one hundred years gone. Photographs of and from the pages of a book, "Important Men of New Fairfield, Connecticut”, published in 1881. A reverent book about memory, history, and portraiture.
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RIP Milton Glaser. Designer Extraordinaire and cultural icon. I❤️NY. Photo from 2009, ©️ellenwallenstein. from my book “Respecting My Elders”, 2013.
Another cemetery rubbing, wax crayon on black paper 12x9”. #death #mother #cemeterywords #artfromgrief #carter_burden_gallery
Cemetery rubbing, veteran’s grave, Sherman Ct. #civilwar #veteran #death #rubbing #gravestone #connecticut #redandblue #crayon #war
Father’s Day, my father & his father at the same age. Collage 2019 #paternalbloodline Herbert Joseph Wallenstein, 1917-1996, and Joseph Solomon Wallenstein, 1869-1928. #early30s #progenitors #ancestors #family #likeawallenstein #happyfather
cemetery rubbings from yesterday. wax crayon 🖍 on paper #mother #maternal bloodline #death #grieving #incised
One of today’s rubbings, wax crayon on black paper #cemetery #deathbecomesyou #rubbing #incision #finally
Cemetery rubbings, black conte on deli paper. #died #deathbecomesyou #lastcentury #oldasthehills
Harriet and I, collage from last September. #trapped in the machine #xeroxes #grandma #self #maternalbloodline
Missing her today. Two months and a few days after the funeral. # mom #mother #elaine #maternalbloodline #femaleantecedent #deathinthefamily #griefisarollercoaster
The essays in this book become more and more prescient and relevant #roxanegay #badfeminist #blacklives #womensrights #greatwriting