Florida Family Portrait
Produced at Visual Studies Workshop Press in Rochester, NY. Gelles has photographed her family in the same fixed pose for twenty years. Using minimal text, she has plenty to say about the constancy and mutability of the photographic image and about growth, maturation, death and generations. 48 pages duotones 8″x8″ paper cover, © 2002 Funded by: Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation “Artist as Catalyst Grant” Independence Foundation “Fellowship in the Arts Grant”
When We Were Ten
A photo/text story of a mother and her son Gelles’ book explores the subtly significant and significantly subtle ways we learn how to grow up male and female in our culture. 40 pages black and white 7″x10″ paper cover, © 1997
Beach Boxes for One Picture Book Series
Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2004. 16 pp., 11 four-color illustrations per book, For sale on the Photo Eye web site