Author: Virginia Dodier Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 136
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Drawing inspiration from their dress-up boxes, the girls masqueraded in lavish costumes and acted out mysterious dramas for their mother's camera.
Author: Elisabeth Bronfen Publisher: ISBN: 9781905791200 Category : Celebrities Languages : en Pages : 0
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This anthology is dedicated to pictures of women taken by women. It begins withhotographs by the two great female photographers of the 19th century, Clementna Lady Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron, and covers a period of over 100 yars to the present day.;Some 160 images by 90 photographers present us with th entire spectrum of female self-definition both behind and in front of the camra. As such, the four major themes of social reality, the family, the female bdy and virtual reality come to the fore with their multifarious pictures fromhe worlds of art, literature, fashion, dance and show business. There are selfprotraits as well as female photographers' portraits of female photographers,aughters, mothers and, of course, several important female figures including Vrginia Woolf, Greta Garbo, Martha Graham, Simone de Beauvoir, Maria Callas, Maonna, Hillary Clinton, and even Her Majesty the Queen.
Author: Alexandra Schwartz Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art ISBN: 0870706608 Category : Art, Modern Languages : en Pages : 266
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This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.
Author: Edith Johnstone Publisher: Broadview Press ISBN: 1770482490 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
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In A Sunless Heart, Edith Johnstone establishes a feverish atmosphere for her novel’s story of emotional and physical hardship and the power of bonds between women. Its first third focuses on Gasparine O’Neill, who shares an intense connection with her sickly twin brother, Gaspar. Living in poverty, the two struggle to live decently until Gaspar dies. Here gritty naturalism gives way to fantasy, as Gasparine is rescued from despair by the brilliant Lotus Grace, a much-admired teacher at the local Ladies’ College. Sexually exploited from the age of twelve by her sister’s fiancé, Lotus cannot love anyone, not even her illegitimate child. Gasparine devotes herself to Lotus, but Lotus finds her final brief happiness with a woman student, Mona Lefcadio, a passionate Trinidadian heiress. Exploring issues of race, sexuality, and class in compelling prose, A Sunless Heart is a startling re-discovery from the late-Victorian era. The appendices to this Broadview edition provide contemporary documents that illuminate the tension between romantic friendship and lesbian consciousness in the novel and address other debates in which the novel participates: the nature of Creole identity, the education of women, and the dangers of childhood sexual exploitation.
Author: Kristen Frederickson Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520231658 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 292
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Contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. These 13 essays address the work and history of specific artists, beginning with the Renaissance and ending with the present day.
Author: Lionel Gossman Publisher: Open Book Publishers ISBN: 1783741279 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 194
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In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse — the "Second City of the Empire" — a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan’s photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accordance with the City of Glasgow Improvements Act of 1866, is widely recognized as a classic of nineteenth-century documentary photography. Annan’s achievement as a photographer of paintings, portraits and landscapes is less widely known. Thomas Annan of Glasgow: Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph offers a handy, comprehensive and copiously illustrated overview of the full range of the photographer’s work. The book opens with a brief account of the immediate context of Annan’s career as a photographer: the astonishing florescence of photography in Victorian Scotland. Successive chapters deal with each of the main fields of his activity, touching along the way on issues such as the nineteenth-century debate over the status of photography — a mechanical practice or an artistic one? — and the still ongoing controversies surrounding the documentary photograph in particular. While the text itself is intended for the general reader, extensive endnotes amplify particular themes and offer guidance to readers interested in pursuing them further.
Author: Clara Bouveresse Publisher: ISBN: 9780500411155 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Women began working as photographers in the second half of the 19th century, a time when the rules of the medium had not yet been codified and experimentation was the order of the day. Some opened their own studios, patenting their own equipment and carving out a place for themselves in this new artistic field, while others were obliged to work anonymously or under pseudonyms. As the 20th century dawned, women embraced genres ranging from pictorialist soft focus to documentary realism and surrealist photomanipulation, fearlessly exploring the boundaries of photographic possibility.
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