What Lies Within

Photographs by Dale Niles

What Lies Within: the Eclectic Collections of Andrea M. Noel ​

Sometimes in life, the world presents you with something unexpected, like a small gift that appears fully wrapped with a bow on top. Seven years ago, I entered the collector’s world of Andrea M. Noel after a friend suggested that I might be interested in photographing Andrea’s expansive collections. After approaching her about the potential of examining her assortments photographically, I was presented with a list of over sixty collecting categories, ranging from kitchen utensils to bedpans and urinals. When I arrived at Andrea’s beautiful, home complete with a wraparound porch festooned with wisteria, I was unprepared for the surprises that lay within. – Dale Niles, photographer

The photographs Dale Niles has created for What Lies Within: The Eclectic Collections of Andrea M. Noel, are not only the perfect creative cataloguing of Andrea’s well-developed sensibilities, but Niles’ images take possession of the objects in a new telling through staged tableaux and conceptual portraiture, creating her own reinterpreted collection of a collection. – Aline Smithson, visual artist, educator and editor

Hardcover (wrapped in linen cloth with foil stamping and blind debossing)
Smyth-sewn book, lay-flat binding with 7 foldout sections
150 full-color photographs printed with stochastic screening
11.5″x10.5”
Limited edition of 750
ISBN-13: 978-0-9963189-6-9
Library of Congress Number: 2021909385