by margaret on February 5, 2010
WHEN NEWS OF A COLLECTION OF 18 VINTAGE PHOTOS OF TWINS Maurine and Noreene reached The Sister Project one year ago today, we and our readers experienced a grand collective “Oh!” and worked to find out who these wonderful women were. The mystery got solved…but now, another chapter reveals itself, from a new commenter, Gary, who it turns out worked for 25 years in the camera shop where those photos got processed. Oh, my. Read Gary’s latest chapter in the tale: [click to continue…]
by margaret on February 12, 2009
By Marion Roach Smith
WHEN NEWS OF ROZ LEIBOWITZ’S recently acquired collection of 18 vintage photos of twins Maurine and Noreene went up on TSP last week, we experienced a grand collective “Oh!” That quickly expanded into an “Oh, my goodness,” as one photo after the other built upon the sisters’ story. But it was a story we were making up, each of us, in response to what we saw. What was the real story? We all began to wonder. [click to continue…]
by margaretroach on February 5, 2009
WHEN WE SAW ROZ LEIBOWITZ’S set of vintage photos of twins Maurine and Noreene this week on Flickr, we had to know more: Who were these red-headed sisters, and how had they come to live with Roz, a New York City-based artist and writer who uses found paper and imagery in her personal work? [click to continue…]