12.07.2013

Sweet Baby Pictures Require Invisible Mothers

Victorian photographic portraiture required the sitters to keep still for an exposure of about 30 seconds.  Technical problems arising from squirmy babies and toddlers were addressed by selfless mothers who solved the problem with the typical pre-feminist solution….invisibility.






























 These images reminded us of Patty Carroll's recent project, Anonymous Women, which addresses power, identity and decoration