http://filmfemme.com/2007/08/11/born-into-brothels/ Movie Reviews, etc. Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:34:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://filmfemme.com/2007/08/11/born-into-brothels/comment-page-1/#comment-90 FilmFemme » Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:23:49 +0000 http://filmfemme.com/2007/08/11/born-into-brothels/#comment-90 [...] As I’ve previously stated, I’m not a huge proponent of ‘professional photography’ as a *thing* to be *studied* and *lauded.*  This woman is no Diane Arbus, I can tell you that much.  Her photos are good, I guess, but I could not move past the fact that she has these 2 kids, she takes totally weird pictures of them and drags them around with her and is a really shitty mom!  Like, there’s this one part where she doesn’t want her son to witness the set up of a photo where her mother is going to pretend to breastfeed her newborn (good instinct, Tierney!) but he just keeps coming on in anyway, and finally she’s like “Ok, whatever!”  [...] [...] As I’ve previously stated, I’m not a huge proponent of ‘professional photography’ as a *thing* to be *studied* and *lauded.*  This woman is no Diane Arbus, I can tell you that much.  Her photos are good, I guess, but I could not move past the fact that she has these 2 kids, she takes totally weird pictures of them and drags them around with her and is a really shitty mom!  Like, there’s this one part where she doesn’t want her son to witness the set up of a photo where her mother is going to pretend to breastfeed her newborn (good instinct, Tierney!) but he just keeps coming on in anyway, and finally she’s like “Ok, whatever!”  [...]

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