For the New Year Santa gave Gwyneth a long awaited camera and the second day of the year we decided to go and check out a photography exhibit at MFA to see what camera can capture and bring to life.
There was an exhibit of renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh who photographed a lot of famous people like Winston Churchill (1941), Albert Einstein (1948), Pablo Picasso (1954), Georgia O’Keeffe (1956), Ernest Hemingway (1957), Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy (1960) and Sophia Loren (1981). Gwyneth couldn't relate much to most of these people, however, she did pause and appreciate a photograph of young Queen Elizabeth II and couldn't believe the queens exist in real life and not just fairy tales. On the way home I had to try and unearth anything I could remember on history of England and the country's kings and queens. Thank God, I remembered enough about Henry XIII...
So we wondered around these famous photographs, and on the way out of the exhibit stumbled upon another, contemporary photographic exhibit, which left a much deeper impression on my daughter. The most fascinating and memorable turned out to be about thirty snapshot collage of a person aging one shot at a time. We spent about twenty minutes looking, discussing and guessing on how and why of these pictures.
