Here, you and someone close to you choose a pose which best characterize your feelings towards each other. After arriving at an image you and Berghash agree upon, he superimpose a grid, photographs each segment separately, then reassembles the images revealing a surprising depiction of your relationship.
The finished work consists of six images up to 20” x 24” each.
MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
Aperture
 Berghash and his subjects both felt the first Polaroid image did not characterize the relationship that existed between Miriam and her daughter Melissa .  After three or four shots Berghash and his subjects arrived at this image. Melissa was getting ready for her first year of college, it would be their first time apart. The subjects felt the pose represented their feelings very well. |
Berghash traces the image and superimposes a six part grid as a guide to the final portrait. He does not rigidly adhere to the grid but relies on what he feels and what he sees in the ground glass of his 4” x 5” view camera while making the exposures.
SAMPLINGS OF OTHER SUBJECTS FROM “RELATIONSHIP PORTRAITS”
Mike and Lynn, 1983. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Critic and Poet, (Dan Meron and Gabriel Preil) 1982. In the collection of Dan Meron
Mary and Weston Naef, 1984. In the collection of Weston Naef.