"I hope these images and voices inspire and support. Let them add to our culture's vision and understanding of women."
- From the forward by Olivia Goldsmith
The Right Side of Forty
Celebrating Timeless Women
Photographs by Leif Zurmuhlen. Edited by Patricia Martin. Forward by Olivia Goldsmith, author of The First Wive's Club
With the height of the baby boom reached in 1957, in 1997 more women in the world turned forty than ever before. This book proclaims loudly that that's the right place to be.
A joyful, upbeat and honest collection of fifty-five striking black and white photographic portraits, The Right Side of Forty celebrates women who, in their own time and in their own ways, have blossomed with age. Leif Zurmuhlen's stunning photographs are teamed with Patricia Martin's sensitive interviews of women who reveal their insights on aging, femininity and a love for life over the age of forty.
This beautiful hardcover gift book is dedicated to dissolving stereotypes and exploding myths about aging while undermining the ever-present hype that pressures women to equate beauty with youth.