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A wrinkled dress from a high school dance. A pair of white gloves worn to a
debutante ball. A handkerchief to which the word "Mother" is
hand-embroidered.
These are the subjects of Savage's brilliant photograms -- stark images of
objects placed over black and white photographic paper and exposed to light.
Seemingly like x-rays, they are opaque, transparent and translucent. What She
Wore refers to a collective melancholy past. Dresses, gloves and handkerchiefs
represent formalities which women were forced to embrace by societal standards.
They also reinforced established gender roles. The memories that follow these
objects fill the space of the body of work as well. Savage supplies the
possibility of what the object might have meant -- and viewers can formulate
the various stories in their own mind.
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