Producer of a film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, photographer Lillian Birnbaum explores adolescence in a new show based on her 2008 book.
Birnbaum’s photographic series of girls between childhood and womanhood — shot over five years — subtly captures moments of rebellion, reflection, revelry, and bliss. The images, from her 2008 book Transitions, are showing in New York City through August 14.
She further investigated youth with the 2008 Rhys Meyers film The Children of Huang Shi, depicting a journey to save orphans in war-torn 1930s China.
View Lillian Birnbaum’s website, check out her current show, buy
her Transitions book, and pick up
a copy of The Children of Huang Shi.
The Children of Huang Shi trailer
The Mirror, 2003 C-Print, 15.75 x 23.5 inches Edition of 7 Courtesy Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Diane & Ball, 2005 C-Print, 19.75 x 19.75 inches Edition of 7 Courtesy Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Barbie in Plastic, 2002 C-Print, 13.25 x 19.75 inches Edition of 7 Courtesy Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
The Brown Bench, 2002 C-Print, 19.75 x 19.75 inches Edition of 7 Courtesy Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
Three in Lake, 2005 C-Print, 19.75 x 19.75 inches Edition of 7 Courtesy Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
The Eye (Diane), 2005 C-Print, 19.5 x 19.5 inches Edition of 7 Courtesy Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York