Anne Geddes: The original baby-picture influencer
2 Apr, 2021 01:00 AM
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Anne Geddes with her Hasselblad camera in Manhattan. Photo Ian Lewandowski, The New York Times
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By: Sarah Lyall
Her photography books of little ones in pea pods and flower beds sold millions. Then came Instagram. Photographer Anne Geddes has had a long and prolific career, but she is perhaps best known for Down in the Garden, a 1996 coffee-table book featuring tiny babies adorably (or tweely, depending on your perspective) tucked into unlikely horticultural scenarios, as if they re hiding by chance in someone s flower bed.
Perhaps you ve seen these images online, or on a mug or greeting card or calendar: the sleeping newborns snuggling into tiny pea pods, as if they are so many peas themselves; the babies wearing mouse outfits and dozing in old boots; the babies-as-butterflies, hedgehogs, cabbages, gnomes, worms, bumblebees, flowers.
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Shortly before the publication of “The House of Mirth,” this portrait of Edith Wharton became the first photograph to appear on the cover of the Book Review.
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Shortly before the publication of “The House of Mirth,” this portrait of Edith Wharton became the first photograph to appear on the cover of the Book Review.
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