Photographer Recreates Portraits of Women In Her Family Going Back 200 Years

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“Seven Generations of American Women” is a project by Los Angeles-based photographer Christine McConnell in which she recreated her family portraits going back 200 years. The series starts with her great-great-great-grandmother and ends in the present day.

The images in the project show diptychs with the original portraits on the left and McConnell’s recreations on the right. McConnell tried to match the originals the best she could with careful wardrobe choices, posing, photography, and Photoshopping.

On the left of the image above is Martha, McConnell’s great-great-great-grandmother who was born in 1821. On the right side is McConnell, who recreated the portrait to look like the original.

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[DebJ]

1. Fascinating! Thanks for posting. n/t

[Bucky]

2. Cool project

although technically she's only going back about 150 years, tops

[blackcrow]

3. Not quite fair when there's a big age difference,

Or when the ancestor moms were raising eleven kids and so on.