Recreation 2

original

 

The Picture Book, 1903  by Gertrude Kasebier

Gertrude Kasebier

Born 1852 in Fort Des Moines ( Now Des Moines), Iowa lived in Colorado, Pennsylvania, New York and finally New Jersey. She  attended Pratt Institute of Art and Design at the age of 37, after her husband died, where she learned about Friedrich Fröb's work with motherhood which would late be her main focus. Gertrude is recognized for her photography of Native Americans and themes of Motherhood but also for push for Photography as a career for women. She tends to center her subject in the middle of the frame and work more with portraits than anything.  What I like about her work is that its simple and very eloquent. I like how in the above picture that the light is coming from behind the mother and child and that they are in the lower right of the scene instead of centered. It just helps show that this is a mother and child outside on a sunny day you can tell where they are at.

 Recreation

In my recreation I wanted to update the scene in Gertrude's The Picture Book where a mother and child are looking at a book together. In my photo I had it be a mother and daughter looking at a laptop together. It looks more like a future scene really because the daughter is older and they're using a laptop also the daughter appears to be teaching the mother instead of the mother teaching the daughter. I used the naturally light that was coming in the window to show it was day time just like in the original.