GALLERIES | THEN & NOW

A collection of portraits Anne created for her
autobiography A Labor of Love, presenting the babies
from some of her original images 'as they are today'...

THEN & NOW | JULIA SNAIL

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"This image has become a classic from Down in the Garden...

Julia, who was three weeks old at the time, is comfortably lying on various pieces of soft foam, thin enough to be artfully hidden in the final image...

Julia Snail, 1994.
As seen in Anne’s best-selling coffee-table book Down in the Garden.

Sometimes titles for images become more obvious once they have been created, and this image is an excellent example. “Julia Snail” sounded perfect. A few years after Julia had been photographed, I was talking to her father John and asked him if Julia was still their baby, or had they had any more children. He said, "Definitely not, we stopped at the snail"...

It was hard for her [Julia] to imagine that she had ever been tiny enough to be almost completely covered by that shell."

Text taken from A Labor of Love.

Julia at age 12, in 2006.
As seen in Anne's autobiography, A Labor of Love.

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