The Photo

Every morning Art Knowledge News email brings me news of the art galleries around the world. Many items are illustrated with great art.

This Condi Nast  Edward Steichen photo  strikes me with such emotional force that I experience its beauty physically. It depicts in detail what I imagined being grown up to be.  On checking with a couple of age peer friends it seems the impact is unique to me.

I believe it must  be very close to the image of the memory screen of my Oedipal era that I have carried since.  I feel very close to my  mother as I view it.   The woman with the Chanel scarf could be her. Being a lover of history and historical context for the personal I also can place it as representing a high point of  the hubris of the "Roaring Twenties" that preceded the times of disillusionment; a screen image for the culture's Oedipal era.

Enjoy and comment if you will.