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Women Street Photographers
With a rising number of women throughout the world picking up their cameras and capturing their surroundings, this book explores the work of 100 women and the experiences behind their greatest images. Traditionally a male-dominated field, street photography is increasingly becoming the domain of women. This fantastic collection of images reflects that shift, showcasing 100 contemporary women street photographers working around the world today, accompanied by personal statements about their work. Variously joyful, unsettling and unexpected, the photographs capture a wide range of extraordinary moments. The volume is curated by Gulnara Samoilova, founder of the Women Street Photographers proje...
Women
"Women: Portraits 1960-2000 is a compilation of portraits taken by American photographer Susan Wood of some of the most prominent and influential women of the 20th century. Her notable subjects include Diane von Furstenberg, Martha Stewart, Nora Ephron, Alice Waters, Jayne Mansfield, and Gloria Vanderbilt among many others. Susan Wood's work represents a number of milestones in American photography over a period of more than 40 years. She was involved with the original "Mad Men" of Madison Avenue and during that time won a Clios, the most sought-after award in advertising. Mademoiselle chose her as one of their top Ten Women of the Year and her work appeared in many other periodicals includi...
A History of Women Photographers
In a work of staggering beauty and immense learning, Rosenblum presents a comprehensive history of women's accomplishments in photography around the world and throughout the entire history of the medium, from the mid-1800s to the present. She explores the work of some 240 photographers, from Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Frances Benjamin Johnston to Tina Modotti, Lisette Model, Margaret Bourke-White, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Susan Meiselas, and Cindy Sherman. Includes 263 photographs, 30 in color. Extensive bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843 - 1999, 10×10 Photobooks' most recent "book-on-photobooks" anthology in its ongoing examination of photobook history, explores photobooks created by women from photography's beginnings to the dawn of the 21st century. Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, the anthology interprets the concept of the photobook in the broadest sense possible: classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books, zines and scrapbooks. Some of the books documented are well-known publications such as Anna Atkins' Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853), Germaine Krull's Métal (1928) and Diane Arbus: An Aper...
A Female Focus
Surveys the work of American women photographers over the past 150 years, examining what they photographed and why, as well as how they worked.
Illuminations
This selection of women's writings on photography proposes a new and different history, demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over 150 years, focusing it more deeply and, with the advent of feminist approaches, increasingly challenging its orthodoxies. Included in the book are Rosalind Krauss, Ingrid Sischy, Vicki Goldberg and Carol Squiers.
Women Seeing Women
This anthology is dedicated to pictures of women taken by women. It begins withhotographs by the two great female photographers of the 19th century, Clementna Lady Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron, and covers a period of over 100 yars to the present day.;Some 160 images by 90 photographers present us with th entire spectrum of female self-definition both behind and in front of the camra. As such, the four major themes of social reality, the family, the female bdy and virtual reality come to the fore with their multifarious pictures fromhe worlds of art, literature, fashion, dance and show business. There are selfprotraits as well as female photographers' portraits of female photographers,aughters, mothers and, of course, several important female figures including Vrginia Woolf, Greta Garbo, Martha Graham, Simone de Beauvoir, Maria Callas, Maonna, Hillary Clinton, and even Her Majesty the Queen.
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Women and Photography in Africa
This collection explores women’s multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa. The book offers new ways of thinking about the history of photography, exploring through case studies the complex and historically specific articulations of gender and photography on the continent, and attending to the challenge and potential of contemporary feminist and postcolonial engagements with the medium. The volume is organised in thematic sections that present the lives and work of historically significant yet overlooked women photographers, as well as the work of acclaimed contemporary African women photographers such as Héla Ammar, Fatoumata Diabaté, Lebohang Kganye ...
What Can a Woman Do with a Camera?
Women are bombarded with images dictating how we must look, how we should act and even defining who we are. When women present images of themselves, the boundaries fall away giving fascinating leaps of the imagination. From abstract expression to straightforward snapshots, women can use the camera differently. We can go beyond conventional photographic preoccupations with surface and lighting and see the camera as a flexible tool to record, discover and invent."--Publisher's description.
