Photographer Recreates Portraits of Women In Her Family Going Back 200 Years
“Seven Generations of American Women” is a project by Los Angeles-based photographer Christine McConnell in which she recreated her family portraits going back 200 years. The series starts with her great-great-great-grandmother and ends in the present day.
On the left of the image above is Martha, McConnell’s great-great-great-grandmother who was born in 1821. On the right side is McConnell, who recreated the portrait to look like the original.
This is her great-great-grandmother Jane, who was born in 1858:
Her great-grandmother Attie Mae, who was born in 1898:
Her grandmother Mildred, who was born in 1928:
Her mother Kathryn, who was born in 1957:
And finally a modern day portrait of McConnell herself:
What will the next and 7th generation be like? McConnell has no idea, but here’s a horse named Trigger:
Image credits: Photographs by Christine McConnell and used with permission