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Who is Anne Geddes, the child photographer liked by JW Anderson
There is a strong connection between the world of art and the creations of Jonathan W. Anderson. You can see it by looking at his garments' silhouette, cut, prints, or decorations. For example, at the LOEWE Women's FW24 show, handbags were shaped like bunches of asparagus, a tribute to French provincial ceramics, some of the coats had collars made of real wood shavings reminiscent of Chippendale-style furniture, floral motifs evoked the interiors of Onassis' homes, and the idyllic natural landscapes of Albert York came to life in bustiers sculpted like petals, trousers printed with radishes, and dogs lying on grass. It’s a complex, pastoral, and surreal world that draws from Anderson's eclectic imagination, which includes not only the work of American painter Albert York, but also, as revealed by the creative director on the brand's Instagram, that of Anne Geddes. For those born after , she might be an unknown
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You probably know the name Anne Geddes. If you Google “famous photographers,” she pops up in suggested names, sandwiched right between Andy Warhol and Weegee.
If, for some reason, you do not know Anne Geddes’ name, you most certainly would recognize her work. She did those photos of babies dressed up as bunnies and cabbages and gingerbread men and other harder-to-distinguish objects. She did those adorable yet slightly unsettling visions of teeny newborns stuffed inside very large pockets and, once, chilling in a faux amniotic sac with Celine Dion. She made the calendar that hung on your kitchen wall in the late ‘90s and the birthday card you hoped would have $20 inside it, but didn’t.
Like Lisa Frank and Thomas Kinkade, Geddes’ imagery formed the desktop wallpaper to my childhood. inom grew to know and love it almost without my consent, like a mediocre song on the radio that keeps playing over and over and over again, until you start to crave it like a warm, fuzzy blanket. Mo • One of the lasting images of the 90s might be a baby sitting snug in a flower pot, head adorned with blossoms. Looking at those images in , there's a whimsical sweetness to them that can cut through to even the cold, broken soul of a Victorian months into an interminable COVID lockdown. "I used to moan to my husband: 'Have I got a flower pot tattooed on my forehead?' Because that's all people would talk about," photographer Anne Geddes told RN's Stop Everything! recently. Geddes' photographs of babies — nestled in pea pods, cabbages and oversized flowers; sprawled somnolent on pumpkins, or sporting flower crowns — exploded into the public consciousness via her coffee table book, Down in the Garden. This tome of tots landed on the lap of Oprah Winfrey at the height of her daytime talk show glory, catapulting the Australian-born Geddes into internatio
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