The Family Album Series

The style of the featured pieces is inspired by the aesthetic of early 19th-century daguerreotype photography.

Analyzing Joseph Kapelyan’s Family Album series, art critic Michael Zaborov calls the artist's unique interpretation and the technique "Daguerreo-Romanticism," highlighting Kapelyan's distinct emphasis on a romanticized, memory-based concept.

Through a meticulously layered process—employing the repeated application and systematic scraping of acrylic layers—Kapelyan physically forces a visual struggle between the emerging object and negative space, masterfully mirroring the texture of a fragile, decaying photograph. The resulting work stands out as a deeply personal monument to a vanished generation, making it a definitive signature of Kapelyan's creations.