Earlier today, I heard that the publicist who promoted Driving Miss Daisy had been shot and killed. Disheartening news, especially since I think very highly of this film indeed. Not a huge amount of films move me emotionally but Miss Daisy, for some reason, brings me almost or entirely to tears every time I watch it. It's definitely not the most heart breaking film I've ever seen but I remember the first time I saw it pretty well. I was sat in my mum's lounge, a couple years before University and I'm quite sure she was ironing, for some reason Channel 5 was on and even though we tuned in half way through the film, I still got quite emotional by the end! It's quite simply about an elderly lady who can't drive anymore so her son employs a chauffeur to drive her around, which she isn't happy about but eventually they become friends. Morgan Freeman stars in it, but Jessica Tandy (Miss Daisy) and Esther Rolle (Idella) make the film so enjoyable for me. Unfortunately, both of these actors have since passed away.
When I think about the image of Miss Daisy (left), another image comes to mind from the book 'American Photobooth' by Nakki Goranin (right).
There was an article about this book in an issue of Dazed and Confused magazine about a year ago, I was taken by the examples of the books imagery and unusually of me, decided to buy it. It hasn't exactly been particularly useful since but I'm still pretty fond of it! The book comprises of about one or two hundred discarded photobooth photographs which were taken around the same time as Driving Miss Daisy was set. During my final year at Uni, I discovered the acetone printing process which involves brushing nail varnish remover on to the back of printed or photocopied images, transferring them to another surface. I had photocopied several of the photobooth images then followed this process, as can be seen below.
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