Mother and daughter 027

Cat eye glasses remained quite popular during the early 1960's but the materials and the shape of the frames changed gradually. The eyebrow lines in the frames became more horizontal. The opal material in Miriam's glasses suggests that her glasses were made in 1962 or 1963. Two years later, the cat eye glasses were banned from the shops and replaced by small, solid glasses. The opal material survived this change for about a year and then vanished. During my school days, I had a keen interest in all these changes and in the mid 1960's my plan was to become an optician one day. Alas - the father was against it and he urged me to try an academic career. I gave him his way but decided to start a glasses collection to keep a part of the dream alive. Much in my photography project "Ladies behind crystal veil" is about reviving images seen in the streets, long ago. I seem to have umpteen images stored on a special chip in my brain and it's a wonderful experience when a moment in a photo shoot connects with an old image. This series of Miriam and Esther yielded a typical example of such a moment. I never mention this during photo shoots - it might take away the flow :).