Reunion — Hand-Embroidered School Class Portraits
about 10 months ago (07/04/2023)
Reunion — Hand-Embroidered School Class Portraits - Photographs and text by Diane Meyer | LensCulture Feature Reunion — Hand-Embroidered School Class Portraits By obscuring the faces with embroidery — which would typically be the most important parts of these elementary school class portraits — otherwise overlooked details are brought into focus, such as body language and other embodiments of social convention. Photographs and text by Diane Meyer Reunion — Hand-Embroidered School Class Portraits By obscuring the faces with embroidery — which would typically be the most important parts of these elementary school class portraits — otherwise overlooked details are brought into focus, such as body language and other embodiments of social convention. Most recently, I have been working on an ongoing series of hand-embroidered photographs based on found elementary school class pictures from the 1970s.