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Juxtaposition by
Susan Shifrin, Curator

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Alice and William Shewell Ellis' daughter.

Unidentified woman.

Introduction

How does this pairing of images affect the way you view each of them? How do they talk back to each other? What do they have in common? What divides them?

When you think of “picturing’ girls, what kinds of images do you think of? When you think of “picturing” women, what kinds of images do you think of? How do girls pose? How do women pose? How do these images differ from or confirm your prior ideas about these ways of picturing?