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1955
GUSN-194495
Verner Reed shot the images for the "Life" magazine photo-essay, "A Wedding in a Land of Dolls," which described the fanciful wedding of dolls at the home of children's book author Tasha Tudor. Tudor famously eschewed the trappings of modern living and created instead a carefully constructed world based on nostalgia for pre-modern America. Reed took advantage of his time at Tudor's house to capture not only the wedding, his assigned subject, but a bit of this remarkable family's way of life. In this particular photo, the wedding procession, which consists of a number of young girls dressed in white, leaves the Tudor's house.
girls
weddings
dolls
events
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC044
Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972
PC044.TMP.089
Webster (Merrimack county, New Hampshire)
Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Tudor, Tasha
Life Magazine
Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972.
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