Marilyn Minter: Coral Ridge Towers (Mom Dyeing Eyebrows), 1969
Marilyn Minter’s rarely seen black and white photographs of her mother were made in 1969 while she was a student in art school. When classmates first viewed the images, they reacted in shock, exclaiming: ‘Oh my god. That’s your mother?” She had not realised how intensely the images would resonate as her mother, a drug addict suffering from an anxiety disorder, lived in a nightgown, and rarely left the house. Minter did not show the work again until 1994