Sleeping Beauty silas-finch Holland Day is the basis

Holland Day is the basis for this important historical monograph

where nature is domesticated

while it was happening

october 1989

" — Mark Morrisroe

Sleeping Beauty silas-finch Holland Day is the basisPhotography was quickly adapted to the social rituals and customs of nineteenth century America, and among these institutions was the memorial portrait. until the advent of photography, this portrait was a painting and was primarily an upper class phenomenon. With the widespread use of the camera, nearly everyone could afford a post mortem portrait, and for the next half century these portraits were a mainstay of American's commercial photographers.