Home Truths

de Susan Bright, Photographers' Gallery Staff, Foundling Museum Staff, Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.), Museum of Contemporary Photography Staff

This beautiful and striking book examines contemporary interpretations of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of picture-making: the image of the mother. Focusing on the work of 12 international photographic artists, the publication challenges the stereotypical or sentimental views of motherhood handed down by traditional depictions, and explores how photography can be used to address changing conditions of power, gender, domesticity, the maternal body, and female identity.