Sheri Lynn Behr has always photographed places, details of cities. In order to evoke visual memory and a sense of place, she collects images to remember by. Distance and time change perception of place and can bring to mind a feeling of disconnection or loss.

Moving from New York to Los Angeles in 1995 and then back to the east coast in 2002 has had a profound impact on her work. She now explores the ephemeral nature of places once taken for granted, and searches out commonalities in places with differing visual influences.

Using Polaroid i-Zone film to create source images enables Behr to focus on a memorable element in the landscape and make it more permanent. She then uses a scanner and computer to alter color and size to optimize the transitory effects of memory and place. The final images are printed with archival pigment ink on 8.5"x11" Epson Archival Matte paper in editions of 25.

Photographs from this series were purchased earlier this year for inclusion in The Polaroid Collection.

About the Artist

Sheri Lynn Behr was born in the Bronx and studied photography and digital imaging in New York. She is probably best known for her rock and roll images from the 1970s. Her photographs appeared in most music publications of the time, including Rolling Stone, Creem, and Billboard, and she often shot on assignment for major recording companies.

In the early 80s she decided to concentrate on personal work, often done with a Polaroid camera and film. This sent her on a journey that has included documentation, interpretation and transformation of images, and has lead to a merging of photographic and digital technology.

Her first solo exhibit of Polaroid SX-70 photographs was in 1983, and she has exhibited her work through the years in galleries and magazines in the United States and Europe, as well as on the Internet.

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