Chloe Bailey on Working Solo; and the Lost New Jersey Photos of Cartier-Bresson
When they were just thirteen and eleven years old, sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey started posting videos of themselves singing on YouTube and quickly built a following. Their covers often went viral\u2014their version of Beyonc\xe9\u2019s \u201cPretty Hurts\u201d even caught the attention of Beyonc\xe9, who brought them on tour as her opening act.\xa0 Now, with two albums and five Grammy nominations behind them, the sisters are for the first time working on separate projects: Halle is starring as Ariel in an upcoming remake of \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d and Chloe is releasing a solo album, \u201cIn Pieces,\u201d later this month. Chloe Bailey spoke with the contributing writer Lauren Michele Jackson at the New Yorker Festival in October about the mixed blessing of social-media stardom. \u201cWhen we program our minds to think about being No. 1 \u2026 it really suffocates you and it stifles the process,\u201d she says. \u201cRight now, I\u2019m just creating to be creating, and I have never felt more free.\u201d\xa0\nPlus, the lost New Jersey photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1975, the French master photographer spent a month documenting New Jersey, which he called a \u201cshortcut to America.\u201d Why did the pictures disappear?