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Putting women in the picture
In 1971, the American art historian Linda
Nochlin famously asked why there were
no great women artists.
One of many academics then scouring
museums and archives for evidence of
womens creativity
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Anna Atkins: first to use photograms (illustrations of flora and fauna)
Lady Eastlake: prominent critics debating the nature of photography
Lady Hawarden : victorian women renowned for family album
Julia M.Cameron : among the first to stage mythological scenesportraits
Berlin Lette: number of women were trained in Germany at theVereins photographic school, one of the best establishments in Europe
Alice Austen, Frances B. Johnson, Jessie T. Beal:used the camera to explore their local communities
Gertude Kasebier and Agnes Warburg : belongedto pictorialist groups
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Sophia Goudstikker (Munich) and MadameYolande (London) : operated their own successful businesses
Christina Broom (Mrs Albert): british photojournalist styled
as a press photographer Mary Schaeffer: american ethnographer documenting First Nation
peoples in the Canadian Rockies
Claude Cahun, Hannah Hoech, Lotte Jacobi and
Lucia Moholy : involved in the aesthetic and politicalexperimentation of the 1920s, and the expansion of magazine journalism
amd advertising in the Weimar Republic created many openings for women
Gisle Freund and Germain Krull : worked in portraitureand documentary
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Gerda Taro: war photographer (the first of many women)
Margaret Bourke White : created the first cover picture for Lifemagazine
By the turn of the 21st century, the market value
of works by celebrities like Nan Goldin and
Cindy Sherman was fully comparable to that ofmen.
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Naomi RosenblumA History of Women Photographers (2nded. 2000)
Val Williams Women Photographers: The Other Observers
1900 to the Present
Constance Sullivan Women Photographers(1900)
Sarah Graham-Brown Images Of Women: The Portrayal OfWomen In Photography Of The Middle East, 1860-1950
Jo Spence and Joan Solomon What Can a Woman Dowith a Camera? (1995)
Liz Heron and Val Williams Illuminations: Women Writingon Photography (1996)
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Victor Burgin Looking at Photographs in Thinking Photography(1982)
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright Practices ofLooking:
An Introduction to Visual Culture (2001)
Liz Wells Photography: A Critical Introduction (3rd ed, 2004)
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Putting women in the picture
Woman photographer in 1970s and 1980s:
Donna Ferrato
Study of domestic violence Jo Spence
Interrogating the family album
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Gender and Representation
Feminist movement
Brought questions of gender and culture into
focus
Three concerns:1) Given the numbers of women photogrpahers, questions were
asked about their relative absence2) To give equal access to training work
3) Questions of gender and representation were addressed
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Gender and Representation
French Feminist Luce Irigaray
Creativity is not neutral in terms of gender and
cultural experience
Parameters less fixed (advertising and galleries) New subject matter
Experimentation of materials
Differents methods of putting content into the picture
Womens contribution to photography Gender influences form, style and subject matter
Methods and working including approaches to research
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Keeping Others Alive
As Nan Goldin realized that details of her sister were beginning to
fade from her memory, she started photographing the people in her
life as a way to preserve her friends
The "Goldin Look"
color film
illumination of her subjects with flash allow her to capture vibrant
colors.
Using process called Cibachrome, she creates her prints fromslides, rather than negatives. Not only does the Cibachrome
processing lend her photos garish, bright colors, but it also
enhances the texture of colors and lines.
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Keeping Others Alive
Important works:
Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986)50-minute slideshow of her work put to music (Bjork)
700 slides that have been updated since its first showing in 1980,
contains photographs from 1973 through 1989.
The Cookie Portfolio (19761989)
Goldin's friendship with Cookie Mueller through 15 photographs
from 1976 to Cookie's funeral in 1989. She died of Aids.
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Kimiko Yoshida
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Rinko Kawauchi
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websites
www.wipnyc.org