Title & Author:

Women photographers / edited by Constance Sullivan ; essay by Eugenia Parry Janis.

Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, [1990]
©1990

Description:

263 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes photographs by Maria Chambefort, Anna Atkins, Lady Filmer, Lucy Fleming, Louise Deshong Woodbridge, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Brigman, Gertrude Käsebier, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Jessie Tarbox Beals, Doris Ulmann, Laura Gilpin, Margaret Watkins, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Consuelo Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, Margaret Bourke-White, Ilse Bing, Marjorie Content, Florence Henri, Lee Miller, Studio Ringl & Pit, Lotte Jacobi, Madame Yevonde, Margrethe Mather, Berenice Abbott, Lucia Moholy, Wanda Wulz, Hannah Höch, Lotte Beese, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Dora Maar, Ellen Auerbach, Aenne Biermann, Germaine Krull, Eudora Welty, Marion Post Wolcott, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Rosalind Solomon, Graciela Iturbide, Susan Meiselas, Mary Ellen Mark, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Sally Mann, Andrea Modica, Judith Joy Ross, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Tina Barney, Annie Leibovitz, Maude Schuyler Clay, W. Snyder MacNeil, Nancy Hellebrand, Holly Wright, Jan Groover, Lynne Cohen, Catherine Wagner, Patty Carroll, Barbara Kasten, Karen Halverson, Lois Conner, Linda Connor, Ruth Thorne Thomsen, Barbara Ess, Laurie Simmons, Jo Ann Callis, Sandy Skoglund, and Barbara Norfleet.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface -- Her Geometry / Eugenia Parry Janis -- Plates -- Acknowledgments -- List of plates.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Assembled from public and private collections the world over, the extraordinary images presented in this volume reflect the work of 73 women photographers from the mid-19th century to the present. They range from such early Victorian pioneers as Lady Clementina Hawarden to the recent work of Cindy Sherman, reconstructing a virtual pantheon. As well as encompassing the photographs of important early figures in the art--Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Kasebier--Sullivan (The Nude) pays considerable attention to international modernist artists (Berenice Abbott, Imogen Cunningham, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange). Each photographer is represented by several examples of her work, eliciting a gamut of emotions from the viewer--cerebral admiration in the case of Margaret Bourke-White's shots of technology; horror in response to Lee Miller's depiction of the liberated Dachau concentration camp. Another service rendered by the book is the unveiling of obscure practitioners, such as the innovative English portraitist Madame Yevonde. A perceptive essay by art historian Janis provides a provocative critical framework for all.

Resources:
Additional information at Google Books

ISBN:

0810939509
9780810939509

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Women photographers.
Femmes photographes.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Bildband
Fotografie

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Sullivan, Constance, editor.
Parry, Eugenia, writer of added commentary.
Homans, Katy, book designer.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 57658
Call No.: ID TR650.W65; ID:90-B6007
Status: Available