A surprisingly forgotten late 19th century photographic archive. In it, several women eat, drink and love dressed in a corset, hat and long skirt. Sometimes they wear a masculine suit or travel by boat in their petticoats. They pose in the field while they go on a picnic, photograph their walks or their rites, making something valuable out of their daily life. Dear Theresa, part of the discovery of a photographic archive to write five fictional texts... texts that face the historical void and reinvent the lives of Victorian women. Thanks to this work, the author Theresa Parker Babb (1868-1948) cease to be a mystery.
Dear Theresa is an experimental and daring book, with black and white photographs and five short stories; it is the manifestation of the authorship of an artist who today dialogues with others: Marta Jiménez Serrano, Sara Torres, Rosario Villajos, Pilar Bellver and Valeria Mata . The writers carry out a brilliant exercise in imagination, filling in the lost gaps in the story with different unpublished stories in which they talk about photography, impossible loves or hidden loves. Family secrets or, in general, everyday life in the town of Camden (Maine) at the end of the 19th century, where Theresa's photographs were taken.
34 black and white photographs of Theresa Parker Babb
5 unpublished texts by Marta Jiménez Serrano, Sara Torres, Rosario Villajos, Pilar Bellver and Valeria Mata
15x20cm
104 pages
