Regarding Emma
Subtitle: Photographs of American Women and Girls
Publisher: Center for American Places
Published: September 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781930066144
Subjects: Gender studies; Photographs: portraits; Photography; Art; Photoessays & Documentaries; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; Photography / Portraits; General
Description: "For nearly twenty years, Melissa Ann Pinney has been making photographs of girls and women, from infancy to old age, to portray how feminine identity is constructed, taught, and communicated. Pinney's work depicts not only the rites of American womanhood - a prom, a wedding, a baby shower, a tea party - but the informal passages of girlhood - combing a doll's hair, doing laundry with a mother, smoking a cigarette at a state fair. With each view, we gain a greater understanding of the connections between mother and daughter, and by extension the larger world of family, friends, and society." "Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls is a pioneering new work in photography and women's studies, whose reach will extend well beyond the walls of America's leading galleries and museums into the hearts and homes of everyday Americans."--BOOK JACKET.