Glass House FROM OUR EDITORS
For her pictorial essays Fragile Dwelling and The Tunnel, Margaret Morton has been described as "a photographer of the homeless" and "a modern-day Jacob Riis." In Glass House, she focuses upon a young group of squatters in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Their dimly lit, unheated seven-story Avenue D abode gives the book its title. Morton's stark yet compassionate photos become even more moving when we learn that this cobbled-together sanctuary has ceased to exist: Just four months after Morton began her project, the police raided the Glass House and evicted all its occupants.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"The Glass House tells the story of Vanessa and her sisters, Lucy and Bryony, whose engineer father works abroad, returning at only sporadic intervals. Their unpredictable yet magnetic mother, Mary, dominates them both physically and emotionally, yet to the outside world they seem like a normal, middle-class Scottish family. Vanessa focuses on her mother above everything, moving further and further into a world of self-deception and emotional isolation. Unable to express love, yet longing for a sense of connection, she struggles to make sense of her relationships with the people around her." Vanessa finds escape out on the hills behind her home together with Alan who she has known since childhood. The pair are deeply drawn to each other - but in the stifling environment of this dysfunctional family, Vanessa craves her mother's acceptance and will do almost anything to get it.
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