
Eric Mueller: Family Resemblance
- Publisher
- Daylight Books
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9781942084815
- Specifications
- Flexibound
148 pages
120 Color Photographs
9 x 9 inches
Essay by Ann Fessler
Family Resemblance is a multi-year photo project which documents and celebrates people who are genetically related and bear a strong resemblance to each other. As an adopted person, photographer Eric Mueller always wondered what it would be like to look like someone else. At age forty-five, when he saw a photo of his birth mother for the first time it triggered the idea to photograph family members with shared physical characteristics. Over a three-year period he photographed around 700 people—from newborns to nonagenarians—asking them about their own experiences with family resemblance.