Girl with Soda Bottle, Living Room, 1950s

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Girl with Soda Bottle, Living Room, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A girl of about seven stands in the middle of the family living room, both hands occupied with a glass soda bottle she is studying with the focused attention of someone who has been told to be careful with it. Behind her, a woman — likely her mother — sits on the sofa with her arms crossed in the posture of an adult who has been waiting for the visit to end for some time. The room is decorated with the kind of hyper-rendered floral print that mid-century department stores sold as fine art, the flowers occupying a canvas larger than any real flower had earned. Kodachrome had by this point made it possible for ordinary families to document their living rooms in full color, which meant that living rooms, for the first time in history, were being judged by posterity on the wallpaper. The girl is unaware of any of this, still working out the bottle.

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