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Minnie Bradley turns away from the camera, as to not face a label of guilt.
In her 1902 Omaha Police Court mug shot, Minnie Bradley refuses to meet the lens. The record lists only fragments of who she was: twenty seven years old, five foot two, wearing a wig, charged with larceny. Yet accounts surrounding her arrest suggest she fought back against a man who tried to harm her. What survives in the photograph is not submission, but resistance.
In Women, Reimagined, I look beyond the label assigned to her and consider the life she carried forward after Omaha. Her averted gaze becomes a moment of control, a refusal to accept the story written for her. The portrait imagines Minnie as a woman in motion, reshaping her identity beyond the limits of a single image or accusation. Instead of ending at the moment she was recorded, her story opens outward, inviting us to see her not as a fixed past, but as a life still unfolding.
25 hand-signed, numbered, limited-edition archival prints available
18×24 inch wall size on 100% cotton cold-press watercolor paper
Designed to last 100+ years with proper care
Includes certificate of authenticity
Once sold out, the edition will never be reprinted
Please allow 10-14 business days for your art to be shipped. Art comes unframed so you can pick the perfect frame for your space.
Minnie Bradley turns away from the camera, as to not face a label of guilt.
In her 1902 Omaha Police Court mug shot, Minnie Bradley refuses to meet the lens. The record lists only fragments of who she was: twenty seven years old, five foot two, wearing a wig, charged with larceny. Yet accounts surrounding her arrest suggest she fought back against a man who tried to harm her. What survives in the photograph is not submission, but resistance.
In Women, Reimagined, I look beyond the label assigned to her and consider the life she carried forward after Omaha. Her averted gaze becomes a moment of control, a refusal to accept the story written for her. The portrait imagines Minnie as a woman in motion, reshaping her identity beyond the limits of a single image or accusation. Instead of ending at the moment she was recorded, her story opens outward, inviting us to see her not as a fixed past, but as a life still unfolding.
25 hand-signed, numbered, limited-edition archival prints available
18×24 inch wall size on 100% cotton cold-press watercolor paper
Designed to last 100+ years with proper care
Includes certificate of authenticity
Once sold out, the edition will never be reprinted
Please allow 10-14 business days for your art to be shipped. Art comes unframed so you can pick the perfect frame for your space.
