The model family histoires Dans une maison

Dans une maison

Introduction by Lauren O’Neill-Butler Selections from Romaine Brooks’s unpublished memoir No Pleasant Memories expose the psyche and practice of this underrecognized queer

and her place in it

Delving into an extensive array of archival material

Les familles se mariaient souvent entre elles

The model family histoires Dans une maisonIntergenerational love, loss, trauma and joy are explored in a project mining the ambiguities of memory, through thirty years of the artist photographing her family. Ellis Ritters first monograph The Model Family loops and deconstructs family photographs of the past and her own contemporary images, in the process confronting head on the ambiguity of photography and its role in memory and identity. However, far from being a space of nostalgia, The