Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls

by Melissa Ann Pinney

Book Overview

For more than fifteen 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. Her 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930066147
• ISBN13: 9781930066144
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Center for American Places
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.5" x 10.0"