Women have been making photographs since the medium's invention, for scientific purposes, to make 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 a record of the way they have viewed the world.
- ISBN10 039305778X
- ISBN13 9780393057782
- Publish Date 17 May 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Language English