Recollections of Family Photographs from FiveGenerations
Baxter, Ed. D.
Snapshots, broken toys, high school diaries, a locketwith secret compartments for tiny photographs, well-read love letters, a piece of sea glass, shoeboxes filled with bits of ephemera from dailylife. These were some of the objects that were partof a 2001 exhibition entitled "recollections" at MacyGallery, Teachers College Columbia University in NewYork City. It was through this exhibition that Iexplored how objects provoke narratives in famil...