GIF IT UP 2015 entry by Marisa Gertz from New York, NY. Source material (1, 2, 3) courtesy the University of Montana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the National Archives and Records Administration via DPLA. Please note permission was obtained from the University of Montana for the use of this image. Marisa writes:
I love the uncanny quality some that early staged photography has. Julia M. Cameron’s “The Rosebud Garden of Girls” (the women in the mirror) is just as creepy, romantic, and gothic as the Tennyson poem that inspired it. The girl in the foreground is Rosalind Lord, in a strange photo (who is that man behind the mirror?) that highlights her truly excellent, and possibly magical, hair.
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