These dresses have been photographed to be part of an exhibition and collated for a book of their own. Passed onto Nelson and her sister for their own dolls, the dresses have become a nostalgic series, documenting her rediscovery of a family memory and touching on comparisons between culture and society, handmade and mass-production, the representation of women then and now as well as the question of materialism. The photographs depict the dresses complete with their wrinkles, stains and scribbles and tell their own story of women, family and childhood.
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