Fourteen years ago, conceptual photographer Suzanne Heintz was sick and tired of people asking her when she getting get married, and of the unspoken implication that there must be something wrong with a woman who remains single past a certain point…
The days when women were “settled down” — that is, married with a kid or two and living the whole white picket fence idea — by the time they were in their early 20s has long since passed (sorry, Princeton Mom). But that’s still not stopping a whole…
Denver-based photographer and art director Suzanne Heintz was fed up with people asking her when she was going to get married. From her mother's direct plea, "Just pick somebody!" to others' woeful sighs of pity, Heintz lived half her life wondering where she had gone wrong. After years of struggling to politely answer the question, she decided to procure the house, husband, and offspring everyone so desperately felt was the pathway to happiness. Purchasing a pair of second-hand mannequins, Heintz set about playing house to achieve the American Dream. From a Parisian holiday to Christmas cards of wildly escalating happiness, Life Once Removed is a sharp, witty critique on the archaic expectations of domestic bliss and fulfillment.
Remember photographer Suzanne Heintz and her “Life Once Removed” series? Well, her mannequin family is back, and this time, she and her stone-faced husband Chauncey, have renewed their vows — with a little help from their daughter, Mary Margaret,…
When we were children, we were fed a generic and age old template for our futures: marriage, 2.5 children, and the white picket fence. Today we understand that those templates are skewed to the very few, and a perfect life is created by many varied scenarios. Suzanne Heintz had one of those childhoods, were parental
I started this series of self portraits in the early years of my photo career, when I began to face what seemed to be universal pressure to hurry up and “make it happen,” before I shriveled into a “Spinster.” It seemed such an old fashioned notion.
Life Once Removed is a whimsical yet thought-provoking portrait series by photographer and self-described spinster Suzanne Heintz that explores the
I started this series of self portraits in the early years of my photo career, when I began to face what seemed to be universal pressure to hurry up and “make it happen,” before I shriveled into a “Spinster.” It seemed such an old fashioned notion.
When we were children, we were fed a generic and age old template for our futures: marriage, 2.5 children, and the white picket fence. Today we understand that those templates are skewed to the very few, and a perfect life is created by many varied scenarios. Suzanne Heintz had one of those childhoods, were parental
When we were children, we were fed a generic and age old template for our futures: marriage, 2.5 children, and the white picket fence. Today we understand that those templates are skewed to the very few, and a perfect life is created by many varied scenarios. Suzanne Heintz had one of those childhoods, were parental
When we were children, we were fed a generic and age old template for our futures: marriage, 2.5 children, and the white picket fence. Today we understand that those templates are skewed to the very few, and a perfect life is created by many varied scenarios. Suzanne Heintz had one of those childhoods, were parental
When we were children, we were fed a generic and age old template for our futures: marriage, 2.5 children, and the white picket fence. Today we understand that those templates are skewed to the very few, and a perfect life is created by many varied scenarios. Suzanne Heintz had one of those childhoods, were parental
Artist Suzanne Heintz's project "A Life Once Removed" is a statement against traditional family life and marriage, with added mannequins.
Artist Suzanne Heintz's project "A Life Once Removed" is a statement against traditional family life and marriage, with added mannequins.
When we were children, we were fed a generic and age old template for our futures: marriage, 2.5 children, and the white picket fence. Today we understand that those templates are skewed to the very few, and a perfect life is created by many varied scenarios. Suzanne Heintz had one of those childhoods, were parental
