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Inspired by the Kodak Girl IX

by hankinslawrenceimages | Dec 5, 2023 | Kodak Girls

One of my favorite advertising campaigns is the Kodak Girl campaigns of the early 1900s. Kodak wanted to get women involved with photography figuring that if women had cameras and took photographs than they would sell more film and cameras. So they created the Kodak Girl who was portrayed in the ads as an active woman out with her camera. She traveled, she participated in sporting events, and she photographed her friends and family. What she didn’t do was be an object photographed by male photographers.

So this series of photos is inspired by the early Kodak Girl campaigns – portraying women across the years out photographing with their cameras.

Every model photographed in this series has been a joy to work with. The images are collaborations that I could not create with them. They all have contributed wonderful ideas, outfits, cameras and an amazing sense of fun to the project. Without their help, this project would still be an idea floating in my brain – they have brought the Kodak Girl to life.

Beautiful Flowers

by hankinslawrenceimages | Aug 1, 2023 | Flowers

A few of the wonderful flowers I’ve photographed (or photographs I’ve edited) recently

Pink Peonies in various stages of blooming

Pink and pale yellow hyacinths with a few aging daffodils

Inspired by the Kodak Girl VIII

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 25, 2023 | Kodak Girls

One of my favorite advertising campaigns is the Kodak Girl campaigns of the early 1900s. Kodak wanted to get women involved with photography figuring that if women had cameras and took photographs than they would sell more film and cameras. So they created the Kodak Girl who was portrayed in the ads as an active woman out with her camera. She traveled, she participated in sporting events, and she photographed her friends and family. What she didn’t do was be an object photographed by male photographers.

So this series of photos is inspired by the early Kodak Girl campaigns – portraying women across the years out photographing with their cameras.

Every model photographed in this series has been a joy to work with. The images are collaborations that I could not create with them. They all have contributed wonderful ideas, outfits, cameras and an amazing sense of fun to the project. Without their help, this project would still be an idea floating in my brain – they have brought the Kodak Girl to life.

Incredible Models II

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized

Photos of some of the wonderful models I’ve had the pleasure of working with in recent years.

Astrid Kallsen wearing a renaissance inspired red over dress - over a white lace dress, wearing a pearl headpiece - playing her harp

Lucy Magdlene, a white woman with long blond hair, wearing a 1960s era chinese inspired dress, holding an ivory parasol. She is standing in the ruins of a barn

Inspired by the Paintings of Berthe Morisot IV

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jun 6, 2023 | Berthe Morisot

A few years ago, I saw the Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist exhibit at the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I was captivated by how Morisot portrayed women in her paintings, especially several paintings showing women in quiet private moments such as a woman putting on her stockings or sitting at her dressing table. These photographs are inspired by those quiet private moments.

I could not create this photographs without the amazing women I have worked with on it. Whether in my studio, or working remotely from their studios, every model has brought ideas and inspiration as we created the photos. Without their help, this series would just be a concept floating around in my head. Thanks to all these wonderful women, we have brought the moments in Morisot’s paintings to life.