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Observations of a Mother(1996) grew out of a show and conference, Family Pictures/Shapes of Memory, that Marianne Hirsch had organized at the Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art. It is the first version of what eventually became Jane’s Living With His Camera (2002).