Artist Information:
Ellie Brown
Philadelphia, PA
United States
Member Since: Oct 2006
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Artist Statement:
About My Sisters 1996-2006
I began photographing my sisters in 1993 during my first photography class in high school. It wasn’t until I was a junior at Mass Art that I began to take it seriously as a project and see its larger potential.
I began trying to compare my sister’s very different lives to my own. We have different mothers; theirs being Jane my stepmother, but we share the same father I was fascinated by how I thought they were being socialized into Girls with a capital G. I loved when I could catch them staring in the mirror pretending to have breasts, playing with their toy ironing boards and dolls or playing dress-up in a princess dress. At the same time, I started photographing their friends. What I discovered defeated my notion that there was an easy definition to what a girl is.
At this time Abby was seven and Emily was eight. Emily was adopted when I was 12 because my stepmother and father couldn’t conceive. As soon as they adopted her, Jane became pregnant with Abby. They are nine months apart and where always in the same grade. I was absolutely...
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Artist Exhibitions:
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2009- Lover’s Books Center for the Book Arts, New York, NY
2008- Images from Ciudad Colon, Galeria Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica
2007- Yo Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006- International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2005- Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
Morris Graves Museum of ...
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Ellie Brown's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Ellie Brown's Portfolio. Browse Brown's body of work:
About My Sisters 1996-2006
I began photographing my sisters in 1993 during my first photography class in high school. It wasn’t until I was a junior at Mass Art that I began to take it seriously as a project and see its larger potential.
I began trying to compare my sister’s very different lives to my own. We have different mothers; theirs being Jane my stepmother, but we share the same father I was fascinated by how I thought they were being socialized into Girls with a capital G. I loved when I could catch them staring... | |
Emily Spreading Gown, 2006 Color Photograph, 20 x 16 inches Price: US$ 300

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Corsage Crisis, 2004 Color Photograph, 20 x 16 inches Price: US$ 300

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Abby , 1996 Silver Gelatin Photograph, 14 x 11 inches Price: US$ 250

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Abigail 11, 2001 Color Photograph, 20 x 16 inches Price: US$ 300

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Korean Notebook 17, 2008 Color Photograph, 16 x 20 inches Price: US$ 600

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