"One Day Young" Shows Women in the Earliest Hours of Motherhood
By Elizabeth Breiner on April 7, 2015 Hazel and Rudy Clemmie and Imogen After giving birth to her second child, while still reveling in the pride-laden afterglow, editorial photographer Jenny Lewis began to wonder why the only representations she had seen of this post-natal period in a woman’s life were images of corseted and flat-bellied women in magazines or heartwarming Hallmark card references, all either idealized or completely cheesy. Why was no one documenting those first transcendent moments of motherhood, when “the rug of life is just being ripped out from underneath you and sudd...