Top: A day in the life of Lewis and Clark, 2002

Bottom: Custer's Last Stand, 2004 (18x48 archival inkjet prints)

Place and Time: Reenactment Pageant Photographs

June 6th - 28th, 2008: The Front Room, Brooklyn

October 3rd - November 30th, 2008: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

French, British, Mohawk, Colonists 2006

Publications

No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art
ed. Richard Klein, published by
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (www.aldrichart.org)


Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self
eds. Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco, published by the International Center of Photography
(www.icp.org)

Art Review Magazine October 2006
Art Photography—Where Next?
"Contemporary photographers setting new agendas"
Article by Jens Hoffmann on Edie Winograde's reenactment pageant series

History is the collective memory of past experience.
In the ongoing series "Place and Time," I photograph staged pageants, re-enactments of incidents (legendary or real) in American history presented in their original locales. My interest in these events—aside from the obvious visual appeal of the extravagant theatrics—is to underscore their quality of mimesis and déjà vu. Though my photographs represent a constructed reality these pageants would take place regardless of my decision to photograph them. In doing so, I am collaborating with chance, portraying events suspended between history and imagination.

The Flaying, 1999