Mother and daughter 029

Miriam (left) and Esther were fascinated when they saw two tables filled with vintage prescription glasses and they selected several pairs from the cat eye era for their photo shoot. Here is a combination in extremis. Miriam is posing in "Coquine" glasses by Essel with a prescription of only +0.25 for both eyes. Who on earth spent a lot of money in the early 1960's to buy glasses with such a minimal prescription? Whoever the lady in question was, she must have liked glasses.... Esther brings in a striking contrast here, posing in classic Nylor glasses made around the same time (1962). These glasses were kindly given to me by Peter, a colleague at work. The glasses had belonged to his mother who died young. When Peter saw my first exhibition of portrait photography, he went to his 88 year old father who had left the house virtually unchanged after becoming a widower. Even some of his late wife's glasses were still kept in a drawer. The father agreed that Peter would give two pairs to me, the 1980's Louis Jouret glasses his wife ended up with, and this early 1960's pair of Nylor glasses. Peter has inherited his mother's high prescription for myopia (minus eight). The Nylor glasses were an immediate success among my models, being featured in no less than nine photo shoots on the present weblog. Early in 2011, Karen was the first to pose in them, followed by Marieke and most of the freelance models. Here Esther joins their ranks, showing that there was never anything wrong with a young lady in strong minus glasses. It's a pity that the excessive glare in the lenses of Miriam's Essel glasses marred most of the portraits in this series but this and the previous portrait came out fine. The same goes for the posing by both models.