More than 175 “Anonymous Women” have been photographed by Carroll over the years. Older pieces include “Canned,” (2018) where a woman’s head is buried under shelves with Campbell’s soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles, and “Gone Postal” where a traveling woman in a green pill-box hat lies on a floor in a field of more than 50 postcards and a half-dozen suitcases. The image “Newsie” (2018) is cast in a black-and-white setting of a woman on a sofa. Her head is under a newspaper and parts of more newspapers are scattered across the sofa and floor. These photographs examine the conflict between women and domesticity. Yet they deliver the message in a light way that has been a hallmark of Carroll’s 50-year career.
