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DATE: August 9, 2009

Review: Lillian Birnbaum at Andrea Meislin

Birnbaum is not the only contemporary photographer whose focus is adolescence, and her pictures of young girls occasionally recall other, stronger and more provocative work.

Birnbaum, who photographed a group of seven friends between 2001 and 2007, is careful, respectful, and observant, and the best of her work is engaging, even touching. She empathizes with her subjects and is particularly sensitive to that transitional time when girls become intensely self-aware and suddenly more mature.

Read the complete review in The New Yorker.

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