Photographer Hanna Agar and artist Elana Langer teamed up for this photography series about making the necessary tools of life more glamorous.
Artist Elana Langer is on a mission. Inspired by her grandmother, she wants to make the tools of living well, like walkers and hearing aids, more glamorous.
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So she teamed up with NYC-based photographer Hanna Agar to create a photo series called Tools of Life, featuring elegantly bedazzled hearing aids shot in real-world scenarios.
The artist modeled for some of the pictures, in public places around NYC, channelling the elegance of her grandmother.
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“My grandmother was a real lady,” Langer said on the project’s Tumblr.
“I don’t remember a time when her hair and nails weren’t done and she wasn’t dressed impeccably. In the last year of her life she, like many others in her condition, lost the ability to walk without support. And although she had a strong will to live, the idea of using a walker in public seemed unbearable to her. The force of her vanity had come up against the limit of the body.”
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Langer suggested to her grandmother that they bedazzle her walker but her grandmother didn’t like the idea.
Though she never got the chance to convince her, Langer kept thinking about the idea for a long time.
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