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A history of women photographers / Naomi Rosenblum.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Abbeville Press, 2000Edition: 2nd ed., updated and expandedDescription: 400 pages. : ill. (some colored) ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780789206589 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 770.82 ROS 014150
LOC classification:
  • TR139 .R67 2000
Contents:
Why women? Color plates At the beginning, 1839-90 Not just for fun: women become professionals, 1880-1915 Portraiture, 1890-1915 Art and recreation: pleasures of the amateur, 1890-1920 Photography between the wars: Europe, 1920-40 Photography between the wars: North America, 1920-40 Photography as information, 1940-2000 The feminist vision, 1970-95 Photography as art, 1940-2000.
Summary: In this landmark volume, Rosenblum (A World History of Photography) examines sympathetically the achievements of women in photography since its invention in 1839, and highlights society's failure to give them appropriate recognition. One research obstacle the author encountered was the 19th-century practice of men taking credit for work done by women. Here is work from 250 female camera artists, from Julia Margaret Cameron (b. 1815) to Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949), who, despite strong cultural resistance, mastered everything from early wet-plate views and portraits to 35 millimeter photojournalism, often initiating aesthetic and commercial improvements. Her chronicle of women's part in each era's artistic movements and media transitions, plus capsule biographies with an in-depth bibliography and index, make this a seminal reference work. The author's choice of 263 photographs seems to favor the esoteric, bringing to light a largely unknown world in vivid originality and broad archival conception. This comprehensive, eye-opening history of women's accomplishments in photography ranges around the world and throughout the entire history of the medium, from the mid-1800s to the present.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-388) and index.

Why women?
Color plates
At the beginning, 1839-90
Not just for fun: women become professionals, 1880-1915
Portraiture, 1890-1915
Art and recreation: pleasures of the amateur, 1890-1920
Photography between the wars: Europe, 1920-40
Photography between the wars: North America, 1920-40
Photography as information, 1940-2000
The feminist vision, 1970-95
Photography as art, 1940-2000.

In this landmark volume, Rosenblum (A World History of Photography) examines sympathetically the achievements of women in photography since its invention in 1839, and highlights society's failure to give them appropriate recognition. One research obstacle the author encountered was the 19th-century practice of men taking credit for work done by women. Here is work from 250 female camera artists, from Julia Margaret Cameron (b. 1815) to Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949), who, despite strong cultural resistance, mastered everything from early wet-plate views and portraits to 35 millimeter photojournalism, often initiating aesthetic and commercial improvements. Her chronicle of women's part in each era's artistic movements and media transitions, plus capsule biographies with an in-depth bibliography and index, make this a seminal reference work. The author's choice of 263 photographs seems to favor the esoteric, bringing to light a largely unknown world in vivid originality and broad archival conception.
This comprehensive, eye-opening history of women's accomplishments in photography ranges around the world and throughout the entire history of the medium, from the mid-1800s to the present.

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