Emily Sheffer
Scrapbooking - a craft typically seen as woman’s work - was subversively adopted by Elizabeth and Anne Miller, in order to exhibit their vast archive of documents from the women’s suffrage movement.
Within the pages of these seemingly innocuous books held hundreds of artifacts tracing a countercultural movement that challenged archaic and oppressive gender norms. The covers, seen here in negative, encourage the viewer to look beyond what is expected, and into a movement that ultimately elevated and advanced the legal rights of womanhood.
All images courtesy The Library of Congress public archives.
Emily Sheffer is a fine art photographer and founder of Dust Collective, a handmade photography book publisher. She earned her BFA in Photography with Departmental Honors from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in May of 2015. Emily was listed as a 2015 LensCulture Top 50 Emerging Photographer, and was invited to participate in Center Review Santa Fe 2016. In 2017, she founded Dust Collective, a handmade photography book collective, and has since published over a dozen titles. Maine Media Workshops recently invited Emily to be their 2019 book-artist-in-residence. In 2020, she accepted a position in the Photography MFA program at The University of Hartford. She currently works as a fine art photographer and studio director in New England.
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