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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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Putting women in picture

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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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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