 Untitled, 2005 From the series "This Stage Of Motherhood" © 2006 Robert Mann Gallery Gail Albert Halaban This Stage of Motherhood Gail Albert Halaban photographs communities of mothers. Like an anthropologist, she portrays the private lives of these women as they journey from single life through motherhood. At first glance, they seem to have everything - education, elegance, wealth, and family. Yet for these women, such advantages are not without conflict. They must weigh having children with the desire to maintain an identity as it was prior to entering this stage of motherhood. Gail Albert Halaban's satiric yet compassionate images illuminate their struggle to balance their children's need for an emotionally available mother with their own inclination to hold onto the independence of youth. Although the photographs in "This Stage of Motherhood" seem to be spontaneously captured, they are in fact intricate tableaux created by the artist within the homes of the women she photographs. This theatricality grants Gail Albert Halaban intimate access to the emotional lives of her subjects. Gail Albert Halaban was born in 1970 in Washington, DC. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and Yale University, from which she received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography. She has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and W. Exhibition: November 30, 2006 - January 6, 2007 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11am - 6pm Robert Mann Gallery 210 Eleventh Avenue (between 24th & 25th Streets, Floor 10) USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 989 7600 Fax +1 212 989 2947 www.robertmann.com |
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