Feminine Mystique

A revisiting of The Feminine Mystique...that particular ennui so well explored by Betty Friedan in her book by the same name - first published the year I was born. 

I carefully researched and sourced the details for this shoot...everything from the magazine to the ashtrays. Color was so important to me to convey not only the era but also the film stock that would have been used.

I wanted to show the tension of the the male presence (without giving him a face), and also of the changing society - the feeling of not belonging to either world, but desiring something you cannot quite yet articulate.