Mothers & Daughters
I began this series of photos when I first started pursuing B&W photography in San Francisco. I needed a project for a class I was taking at the SF Art Institute. As I am one of three daughters and my mother was one of four, I began the project within the family and eventually expanded it to friends and strangers I met on the street. At the same time, I was learning to print B&W photos in a co-op darkroom on the Berkeley campus and was lucky to have as instructors Richard Misrach and Roger Minick, both wonderful photographers. In time this project led to several workshops in Maine with Mary Ellen Mark who wrote a recommendation for the fellowship that supported my gypsy project In France. Some of this series was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1978.