another laborious photoshopping project......Edwardian relatives......The Gattis 'girls', my Great Aunt Lillian Cook...on the left, flanking another male relative, name..so far...unknown....but wearing what appears to be a Montgomery Ward mail-order suit, that..I suppose....he 'grew into'..with pants, not yet hemmed, but rolled up for this photo shoot.......i knew my friend Jimmy Cook and his wife Julia Chabannes for a many years before discovering that my Aunt Lillian was his grandmother......small World, sometimes.......remembering the adage, 'six degrees of separation' exists between just about all of us......This over a century old photo also depicts the types of strong-willed 'frontier' women and sorta pansy-ish dandy-men that they love, in my bloodline..... note: men are seated......ladies, standing......typical of the sexist attitudes that were seldom questioned before.....the photo was taken on the eve of President Wilson’s inauguration, which coincided with Alice Paul's organized Suffrage Parade and Black journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells's protests...in the more abolitionist North..........i'm taking some observational historical liberties of course, and interpolating them into what i perceive in these old photos, which are silently passive, posed and posthumous to the subjects of the photography.......and the viewer....
