In 'Family Photographs', the late photographer's work between the 70s and 90s is published into her first monograph.
"I would like to call attention to some remarkable photography made in the late 1970s and early 1980s by nine women in Massachusetts," the photographer Mark Steinmetz wrote in a magazine piece in 2014. The article, which went on to detail the shared characteristics of these women's work –"…no large gestures or dramas here nor easy sentiment" – was the earliest starting point for , a new Stanley/Barker published monograph from the late Joan Albert.
The pair first met at Massachusetts College of Art in 1979: Sage was 25 and had just graduated, while Joan, a decade older, was getting her MFA."We liked each other's work, and we liked each other," she says."When the class ended, we got together to look at each other's work and give feedback, as we trusted each other's judgment. The friendship grew from looking at pictures together.
In 2012 Joan died of a heart attack, following more than two decades of chronic pain due to a benign tumour on her spine. While Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort at Joseph Bellows Gallery in 2016."She always intended to do a book," Sage says,"but it was very hard to publish photo books in the 1980s and 1990s.
Martin and Nathan, now with families of their own and jobs in the creative industries , were supportive of the project early on."They loved the idea; they knew that their mom had always wanted to do a book. They understood what she was doing in her work and always seemed totally fine with having the pictures of them shown," she explains."I drove to Martin's and spent the day collecting the prints Joan had considered her best work or exhibition prints.
While separating the work into two categories was a useful tool in streamlining the book – half focuses on Martin, Nathan and Joan's parents, the other on Joan's friends with their children – to Joan, the two groups were very much part of the same whole."She always considered all of her work to be of one piece. When she photographed other people's families, she considered that to be very similar to her work about her sons," Sage says.
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