With blue clouds + laughter
Melanie Manchot. With blue clouds + laughter, 1999.
Description:
'With blue clouds + laughter' belongs to a series titled 'Liminal Portraits', which consists of 15 large scale color photographs made with my mother during 1999/2000. This series builds on an earlier set of B+W studio portraits (1996-1998) and further develops the collaborative practice of portraying my mother over an prolonged period of time. The work attempts to think through contested notions of beauty and suggests that the process of photographic portraiture can act as a moment of celebration.
Medium:
Photography
Tags:
motherhood, portraiture, joy, collaboration, photography, beauty, old age, life cycles
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum