Crowning Preteen Beauty Queens - NYTimes.com
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With her latest project, “The Tree and the Apple,” she has been forced to question her ideas of youth and beauty. She met 12-year-old Emily Dextraze, who has been on the local beauty pageant circuit since she was 4. Leading up to the Heavenly Angels pageant in Connecticut, Ms. Panich-Linsman asked Emily’s mother, Sharie Farina, if she could follow along and photograph their preparations.
“I want to understand why we as a society put so much emphasis on this aspect of our lives,” said Ms. Panich-Linsman, 29. “It starts at a young age.”