Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- The act of making photographs opened a new kind of dialogue between Virginia Beahan and her mother, who suffered from dementia and could no longer care for herself:
- My mother responded to being photographed—she liked the attention. A natural flirt, that side of her nature came out in the pictures—like a teenager preening for a date. There was something about the self she became in front of the camera that revealed more than a failing old woman, and the act of photographing became a special transaction between us. I felt an unexpected appreciation for the intimacy of the exchange. We had made a kind of peace.
- Close to Home: Photographers and their Families, 2011
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Virginia Beahan, born Philadelphia, PA 1946
- Date
- 2005
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Haluk and Elisa Soykan
- Copyright
- © Virginia Beahan
- Medium
- chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- 18 1/2 x 23 3/8 in. (46.8 x 59.4 cm)
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
