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In a series of zany portrait photographs of her mother using 1950sinspired props, a critically acclaimed photographer offers a series of offbeat, tongueincheek imagesincluding "Mother as Coffee Table" and "Mother as Door Mat"that celebrate the ideal of motherhood. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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If Diane Arbus and her mother had shared a similarly warped vision and sense of humor, they might have turned out Mother, a lush, splashy, totally twisted photo album. Photographer Judy Olausen and her 74-year-old mother Vivian--a model with tightly permed blond hair, soft, wrinkled grandmotherly skin, and an extraordinarily expressive face--skewer the clichés of 1950s motherhood and martyrdom. In one shot, Vivian appears as a slightly deranged Betty Crocker, frosting a heart-shaped cake with Valium icing. In another, she's in chains hunched over an ironing board. As the archetypal "Mother Under Pressure," she sports cat glasses, white gloves, and a prim purse while dragging a huge bolder upstairs on her back. In "Shocked by Spock," reading that venerable pediatric bible causes alarm and a near-faint. The collection delivers a wallop of edgy humor and social commentary about women being silenced or squelched in their daily lives and dreams.
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Judy Olausen, named one of the top ten photographers in the world by Hasselblad, is a commercial photographer and photojournalist. She and her mother live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- PublisherAvery
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0140263624
- ISBN 13 9780140263626
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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