MIA, YAYA LILLIAN & JEANNE 1975_43
Contained within these photos is one of my top five images ever taken and that is frame #01. That photo is of my grandmother aka Yaya Lillian Vournazou Cotsones in Oak Lawn IL with her Great-granddaughter Mia Lum Ogden. The photo was used in the making of a handmade book for a photography class with Esther Parada at UIC in 1976. Frame #43 is a photo of Yaya Lillian with her youngest son John who is Mia's grandfather. Cousin Jeanne who taught me everything I know is in frame #05 with her newborn daughter Mia who became my Godchild. Yaya Lillian is in frame #01, 02, 03, 04, 07 and 08. Baby Mia can be seen in frames 39, 40 and 41 in her first visit to Chicago. Thank you, Yaya and Mia!
BOOK MADE BY DIANE ALEXANDER (WHITE) FOR THE ESTHER PARADA PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS AT UIC WITH YAYA LILLIAN VOURNAZOU COTSONES, HER SON JOHN COTSONES IN 1926 & HER GREAT-GRANDAUGHTER, MIA LUM WHO IS THE DAUGHTER OF JEANNE COTSONES LUM AND GRANDAUGTHER OF JOHN COTSONES,1976. ALL PHOTOGRAPHY WAS PRINTED IN THE DARKROOM, MANIPULATED WITH COLLAGES, CUTOUT FIGURES, PAINTED DIRECTLY ON PRINTS THROUGH SOLARIZATION TECHNIQUE ALSO KNOWN AS THE SABBATIER EFFECT.
