by Anastasia on August 18, 2009
By Marion Roach Smith
"Chelsy & Melissa"
REDHEADS NOTE ONE ANOTHER on the street. We check each other’s freckle distribution and eye color. And while no redhead goes unnoticed in any room, it is only another redhead who notices these exact details. Rare as we are, we are always on the lookout for another of our breed. Maybe it’s because we’ve heard so many sentences that begin, “Typical redhead, you’re so….” Artists have always noticed us, too, and though perhaps the artist who loved us most was Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti, an artist we adore these days is photographer Julia Baum, who, for nearly two years, has been working on a portrait series called “A Rare Breed,” consisting entirely of natural redheads (like herself). [click to continue…]
by margaretroach on March 5, 2009
WHEN ARTIST SLOANE TANEN’S jpg-stuffed email arrived in TSP’s inbox late last year, bringing new meaning to the concept of pecking order, we shared some of her crazy creations right away…to introduce her to the rest of the sister flock. Now we’ve rounded up more of Sloane’s special sister art into a slideshow, including several you haven’t seen before. [click to continue…]
by margaretroach on February 8, 2009
This Gail Albert Halaban image seems to ask: Is the child an accessory?
GAIL ALBERT HALABAN HAS MADE a celebrated career of photographing her peer group—her generational sisters, one might say. She made pictures of students when she was one; of 30-something professional women and young mothers next. Like her previous series, the new work in Out My Window, which opened Thursday at Robert Mann Gallery, is of people (usually women) in their homes, this time looking out onto New York City. It’s a perspective TSP can imagine Albert Halaban having glimpses of, with the imminent birth of her second child—the one she always knew she must give to her first. “I could not imagine not having a sibling,” she says. “It is the greatest gift in the world.” [click to continue…]
by paige on February 5, 2009
Poppy (left) and Daisy de Villeneuve were raised in England.
THE TSP SISTERS PRACTICALLY DID cartwheels after connecting the dots between the work of Daisy and Poppy de Villeneuve. Despite an ocean between them, the sisters share buzz in both art and commerce, high ambitions, and double “it-girl” status (they always were snappy dressers, as their 1983 portrait reveals). And when they are reunited and just driving around these days (traveling together as they love to), they also share a fondness for singing their very own mashups, of George Michael and Alanis Morissette, perhaps. Don’t all sisters? [click to continue…]
by margaretroach on November 30, 2008
THE MOMENT WHEN something happens to a parent is a defining one among siblings, and not always in the easiest of ways. But when their mother broke a hip two years ago, Erica Berger, a professional photographer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, somehow created a silver lining for herself and younger brother, David, out of the circumstances.
It all began with a case of insomnia, and a box of old photos. [click to continue…]
by margaretroach on November 16, 2008
Whitney and Simone: A kiss from a best friend.
W HEN TSP SAW an image on photographer Allison Michael Orenstein’s website of a woman in a dress flexing her muscles, it spoke to a certain facet of the word sister for us. So we called the New York-based Orenstein to talk about sister politics in her photos—or so we thought.
Carrying our own stereotypes to the interview, we expected quite a different set of answers than the ones we got. Turns out the word “sister” is not an easy one for Allison, the younger sister to brothers who are five and seven years her senior. Nor is it a political statement for Orenstein at all. [click to continue…]
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