by Hayley Ishihara
Lens is a Photography, Video and Visual Journalism blog from the New York Times. New stories and photos are uploaded almost every day.
The website is neat, well organized and easy to use. However, there is not much information on the main page of the website. To find any information on the projects, you must first find the series you want and then you are able to page through the images and read the statement attached.
The series I chose to examine is called She Modeled in the 1940s. Now, Her Daughter Takes Her Picture.
Sage Sohier, an American photographer, has been photographing people in their space for about 30 years. This specific body of work, Witness to Beauty, stems from her childhood and her mother's work as a model many years ago. Wanting to recreate her family photos, she started capturing her mother, herself and her sister in various scenarios. In the article, John Leland states that Sohier's mother, Wendy Morgan, still knows "how to command a family photograph, how to make it tell a story that intrigues."
Being a model, Wendy Morgan, loved being in front of the camera until one day she just did not anymore. She was not comfortable with her body anymore and asked Sohier to stop shooting.
I really enjoy this project and I think it relates to my work a lot in the sense of working with the idea of beauty. I like Sohier's approach of attempting to recreate old images, but also exploring new ideas and scenarios as they arise.
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