The Classics Collection

Mother and Child

$120 USD
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In the latest body of work by author and photographer Claiborne Swanson Frank, the artist set out to explore what modern motherhood means in the 21st century. Turning her lens on 70 iconic families of mothers and children from such celebrated names as Delfina Figueras, Carolina Herrera, Lauren Sa...
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Madres modernas; By: Valentina Espinoza, L’Officiel Online (Chile), May 2022

Fête des mères: 15 cadeaux pour gâter sa maman; By: Malvine Sevrin, Marie Claire Online (Belgium), May 2022

85 Best Mother’s Day Gifts for Every Kind of Mom in Your Life; By: Talia Abbas, Glamour Online (US), May 2022

8 Coffee-Table Books Every (Yes, Every) Woman Should Own, Savoir Flair Online (UAE), June 2019

Super Mom: What Modern Motherhood Means, Harper’s Bazaar, April 2018

Mother and Child: A New Photography Book of Fashionable Moms, The Cut, April 2018

Clé de Peau Beauté Celebrates Claiborne Swanson Frank’s Latest Book Mother and Child, Vogue, April 2018

Photographer Claiborne Swanson Frank was raised in San Francisco, California. Claiborne moved to New York in 2007 and worked at Vogue under Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour, leaving the magazine in 2009 before pursuing a career in photography. In 2010, Claiborne began her first body of work, a collection of portraits of women in her life, which served as inspiration for her best-selling debut book, American Beauty, published in the spring of 2012. Soon after its release, Swanson moved to Los Angeles and began working on Young Hollywood, her second book of portraits, released in the Fall 2014. In tandem with the creation of her books, Claiborne collaborates with American and European fashion brands, and most recently worked with Clé de Peau Beauté as she photographed her book, Mother and Child. Claiborne also contributes to various editorial publications.

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The Classics Collection

Mother and Child

$120

Page after page brings sun dappled photos, of lightly-clothed bodies—little between a mother and child’s embrace.

— Vogue

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Page count

280 pages

Number of illustrations

over 100

Language

English

Released on

April 2018

Dimensions

W 9.84 x L 12.99 x D 1.57 in

Cover materials

Cloth Hardcover

ISBN

9781614286912

Weight

5.0 lb

Author

By Claiborne Swanson Frank, foreword by Carolina Herrera, and introduction by Lesley M. M. Blume

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