icon for Home page
icon for Kid's Home page
icon for Digital Collection
icon for Activities
icon for Turns Exhibit
icon for In the Classroom
icon for Chronologies
icon for My Collection

Online Collection

front
(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved.
Contact us for information about using this image.



label levels:

Frances and Mary Allen were pioneers in the field of art photography. Their subject choices and techniques set them apart from the formal studio portraits of the period. Artistry and patience combined to convey an aura of intimacy and spontaneity despite long exposure times and other technological limitations of the time. They often used the camera to invite the viewer into a carefully choreographed scene or story. In this case, the sisters captured the Victorian ideal of female friendship when they dressed these women in 1860s-era clothing and posed them exchanging "confidences" in the doorway of a Deerfield, Massachusetts, home.

 

top of page

"Confidences"

photographer   Frances and Mary Allen
date   c. 1914
location   Deerfield, Massachusetts
same height   6.25"
same width   8.25"
process/materials   platinum print
item type   Photograph/Photograph
accession #   #1996.14.0286.01-.03


Look Closer icon My Collection icon Detailed info icon


ecard icon Send an e-Postcard of this object



See Also...

Please Pose for the Camera!

"Child with Pussies" or "Polly and the PussyWillows"

Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins' Son Climbing a Tree


button for Side by Side Viewingbutton for Glossarybutton for Printing Helpbutton for How to Read Old Documents

 

Home | Online Collection | Things To Do | Turns Exhibit | Classroom | Chronologies | My Collection
About This Site | Site Index | Site Search | Feedback