Family Album by Transformer Press
Photos of three generations of good little girls from the artist's family are paired with other women's stories about being good or their parents' expectations of goodness.
"I had decided to explore the socialization of little girls and so wrote a questionnaire asking about being a good girl, or not, and sent it out to the women on my list - this wasn't the first questionnaire. So the stories come from a number of women but I chose to use photos of girls in my own family. I remembered how we used to get black and white photos in little booklets with the plastic "coils" so that's why I bound it that way." - Lise Melhorn-Boe:
Processes, Dimensions, and Edition Information
By Lise Melhorn-Boe
North Bay, Canada: Transformer Press, 1994. Edition of 100.8.5 x 5.5" 12 pages. Text and family photos are photocopied on Hemp/cereal straw paper with pink Kuratani end papers and pink handmade cotton paper covers with plastic comb binding.