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The new woman behind the camera / Andrea Nelson ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington : National Gallery of Art, 2020Description: 288 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781942884743 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 779.092 NEL 015730
Contents:
Director's foreword / Kaywin Feldman -- Note to the Reader Preface / Andrea Nelson and Mia Fineman -- Introduction / Andrea Nelson -- "Such a way of life exists" : new women photographers in the studio / Andrea Nelson -- Modern children by modern women / Elizabeth Cronin -- Working in the margins : women and the rise of the picture press / Kristen Gresh -- Photographers on the move : women report from Africa / Kim Sichel -- Modern bodies / Elizabeth Otto -- Making the New Woman : female fashion photographers in Berlin between the wars / Mila Ganeva -- Notes -- Biographies / Kara Felt -- Acknowledgments / Andrea Nelson -- Lenders to the exhibitions -- Image credits -- Index of photographers.
Summary: "During the 1920s the iconic New Woman was splashed across magazine pages and projected on the silver screen. A global phenomenon, she embodied an ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art. This groundbreaking, richly illustrated volume examines the diverse "new women" whose work profoundly marked the medium of photography from the 1920s to the 1950s. Over 120 international photographers are featured, including Lola Álvarez Bravo, Elizaveta Ignatovich, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Tsuneko Sasamoto, and Homai Vyarawalla. Against the odds, these women were at the forefront of experimentation with the camera and produced invaluable visual testimony that reflects their personal experiences as well as the extraordinary social and political transformations of the era"--
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Director's foreword / Kaywin Feldman -- Note to the Reader Preface / Andrea Nelson and Mia Fineman -- Introduction / Andrea Nelson -- "Such a way of life exists" : new women photographers in the studio / Andrea Nelson -- Modern children by modern women / Elizabeth Cronin -- Working in the margins : women and the rise of the picture press / Kristen Gresh -- Photographers on the move : women report from Africa / Kim Sichel -- Modern bodies / Elizabeth Otto -- Making the New Woman : female fashion photographers in Berlin between the wars / Mila Ganeva -- Notes -- Biographies / Kara Felt -- Acknowledgments / Andrea Nelson -- Lenders to the exhibitions -- Image credits -- Index of photographers.

"During the 1920s the iconic New Woman was splashed across magazine pages and projected on the silver screen. A global phenomenon, she embodied an ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art. This groundbreaking, richly illustrated volume examines the diverse "new women" whose work profoundly marked the medium of photography from the 1920s to the 1950s. Over 120 international photographers are featured, including Lola Álvarez Bravo, Elizaveta Ignatovich, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Tsuneko Sasamoto, and Homai Vyarawalla. Against the odds, these women were at the forefront of experimentation with the camera and produced invaluable visual testimony that reflects their personal experiences as well as the extraordinary social and political transformations of the era"--

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