Women Seeing Women: From the Early Days of Photography to the Present (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393057782)

Women have been making photographs since the medium's invention, for scientific purposes, to earn a living through portraiture or journalistic activities, and for artistic expression. For almost that long, they have been turning their cameras on other women: at first taking the easiest models available to them--their mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, and servants--and later choosing feminist standpoints or investigating the conditions of femininity in their own cultures. This compendium of camera work by and of women embraces a chronological survey of the medium as well as an emotional journey through women's relationships caught on film. Photographers like Julia Margaret Cameron and Gertrude Kasebier share space with Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, and Cindy Sherman. These well-known photographers in turn sit side by side with lesser known, sometimes virtually anonymous women who have left behind an invaluable record of the way they viewed the world.

Author: Lothar Schirmer
ISBN-10: 039305778X
ISBN-13: 9780393057782
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2003
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.07lbs
Size: 12.96h x 9.32w x 1.10d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner