Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Amy Jorgensen’s series Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue addresses the continuing relevance of the women’s rights movement since its inception in 19th century England to its robust manifestations today. In 1913 the Criminal Records Office of Scotland Yard dispersed to its officers surveillance images of eighteen suffragettes. At great personal cost, the women were outspoken activists and ultimately jailed at the infamous Holloway Prison. The historic images are transferred onto vintage handkerchiefs and rendered in cyanotype prints, an early 19th century photographic process instantly recognizable for its brilliant cobalt blue color, and popularized by Anna Atkins, the first female photographer. Inspired by her ancestor, Edna Berg, a suffragette in New York City in the early part of the 20th century, Jorgensen explores modes of women’s protest via themes of oppression, surveillance, and the construction of female identity through generational traditions of domestic labor, intimacy and exchange among women. Read more...
Amy Jorgensen’s series Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue addresses the continuing relevance of the women’s rights movement since its inception in 19th century England to its robust manifestations today. In 1913 the Criminal Records Office of Scotland Yard dispersed to its officers surveillance images of eighteen suffragettes. At great personal cost, the women were outspoken activists and ultimately jailed at the infamous Holloway Prison. The historic images are transferred onto vintage handkerchiefs and rendered in cyanotype prints, an early 19th century photographic process instantly recognizable for its brilliant cobalt blue color, and popularized by Anna Atkins, the first female photographer. Inspired by her ancestor, Edna Berg, a suffragette in New York City in the early part of the 20th century, Jorgensen explores modes of women’s protest via themes of oppression, surveillance, and the construction of female identity through generational traditions of domestic labor, intimacy and exchange among women. Read more...
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, 2014
Cyanotype prints on vintage handkerchiefs, 18 images, 12x12 inches each
Edition of 5 / 2 AP with variations
Cyanotype prints on vintage handkerchiefs, 18 images, 12x12 inches each
Edition of 5 / 2 AP with variations
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1 Margaret Scott
2 Olive Leared 3 Margaret McFarlane 4 Mary Wyan 5 Annie Bell 6 Jane Short |
7 Gertrude Mary Ansell
8 Maud Brindley 9 Verity Oates 10 Evelyn Manesta 11 Mary Raleigh Richardson 12 May Dennis |
13 Kitty Marion
14 Lillian Forrester 15 Miss Johansen 16 Clara Giveen 17 Jennie Baines 18 Miriam Pratt |