It comes at a time when she needs to be taking care of her daughter, and her daughter doesn't want to go outside all the time to take street photography, so they're in the house a lot together. That would be a photograph called 'Mommy is Sick,' and what ends up happening is, Lillian ends up taking twin, or dual, nude and partially clothed portraits of herself and her daughter. Novel Ideas Myla Goldberg: Sorry, Muse, No Candles for You The work of Vivian Maier is in here, the work of Garry Winogrand is in here, the work of Diane Arbus is in here, the work of Louis Faurer is in here.' So some of these photos, they're just, I just took them. 'And so I actually lived with street photographers for five, six years, and I had five or six books of street photography on my desk at any given time. 'The wonderful thing about describing a photograph is you don't need the rights to it, because you're not putting the actual picture in the book,' she says. She's the creation of author Myla Goldberg, who says that while Lillian is fictional, a lot of her photos are real. The supposed catalogue describes 118 photos - but we don't see a single one, because Lillian Preston is fictional, and entirely believable.

The book is set up as if it's a catalogue accompanying her posthumous show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. How?įeast Your Eyes is the name of a new book that tells the story of a young woman - Lillian Preston - who ventures to New York City in the 1950s, absolutely determined to be a photographer. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.

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