Soon after photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, she discovered that items from her mother’s wardrobe would prompt her mom to share anecdotes of the past. With this in mind, Barron began shooting her mom’s clothing, shoes and accessories, and the result is a 100-image visual biography, My Mother’s Clothes.
There’s something haunting about the way the way a dress can lay across a bed, suggesting warmth from recent wear, or the stillness of a nearly-empty bottle of fragrance, a spritz perhaps still lingering in air. The way these objects are photographed depicts absence but expresses joy.
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