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thecollectibles:Art by Eugene Korolev

Six generations of family gather, aged 111 years to 7 weeks

The family has an astonishing six generations of daughters still living. The matriarch of the family, Mollie Wood, was born in 1901 and just marked her 111th birthday. The youngest addition to the family, Braylin Marie Higgins, was born in March to Wood's great, great granddaughter. The secret to the family's longevity? "We're ornery," laughed 39-year-old Marlo Shifflett. "I think that's a lot of it. We're too ornery to stop!" But there might be another magic ingredient as well – resilience. Mollie Wood was a young married woman with two toddlers in diapers and another baby on the way when her husband was stricken by polio. It took him three years to recover enough to go back to work. Wood's granddaughter, Bette Goodson, said Wood "had to raise all the food, wash clothes by hand, cook everything from scratch. She has worked hard all her life." That work ethic was certainly passed down through the generations. Three nights a we

Christian Tagliavini — 1503

 mesi di lavoro del fotografo italo-svizzero Christian Tagliavini , hanno prodotto 1503 ; Una serie di scatti ampiamente ispirati ai maestri del Rinascimento con particolare riferimento al lavoro del Bronzino . Nove personaggi sono ritratti in abiti ( da lui stesso creati ) dalla sorprendente fattura artigianale, che permettono a Christian un totale controllo della composizione e donano alle sue immagini un che di contemporaneo e straniante . Il geniale mix di moda, pittura, sartoria e fotografia, fanno di 1503 un progetto unico e imperdibile.

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