Illuminations

Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present
Herausgeber: Heron, Liz; Williams, Val

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Produktbeschreibung

The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women's writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 980g
• ISBN-13: 9780822317920
• ISBN-10: 0822317923
• Artikelnr.: 21549594

Autorenporträt

Liz Heron’s writings on photography have appeard in Camerawork, Creative Camera and Aperture. She is the author of Streets of Desire and A Red River . Val Williams is an independent writer and curator. She is the author of Warworks and The Other Observers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
The Nineteenth Century in Europe
On the Daguerrotype / Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2
A Lady Photographer who Never Photographs Men / Alice Hughes 3
Annals of My Glass House / Julia Margaret Cameron 8
Photography During the July Monarchy 1830-1848 / Gisele Freund 14
The Camera Against the Paris Commune / Gen Doy 21
Extending the Grand Tour / Maria Morris Hambourg 32
Tracing Nadar / Rosalind Krauss 37
New Visions - The Avant-Gardes and After
Germany: The Weimar Republic / Ute Eskildsen 53
Photomontage Varvara Stepanova 64
The Supremacy of the Message - Dada / Dawn Ades 66
A Hundred Years of Photography / Lucia Moholy 70
I Worked with Man Ray / Lee Miller 74
The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism / Rosalind Krauss 76
A Mutable Mirror: Claude Cahun / Therese Lichtenstein 91
The Armed Vision Disarmed - Radical Formalism from Weapon to Style /
Abigail Solomon-Godeau 96
Distant Voices: Fashion and Portraiture in the Studio in the Inter-War
Years
Olive Edis: Photography, 1914 119
Exhibitions and Commercial Work / Madame Yevonde 121
In Pursuit of Perfection / Dorothy Wilding 125
Early Years / Louise Dahl-Wolfe 127
Pictures and Stories: Documentary and Reportage in North America
Life Begins / Margaret Bourke-White 133
Looking at Life / Carol Squiers 140
The Assignment I'll Never Forget / Dorothea Lange 151
A Crisis in the Intimate / Andrea FIsher 161
One Time, One Place / Eudora Welty 165
The Photo League / Anne Tucker 165
Documentary Photography / Elizabeth McCausland 170
The Politics of Photography / Jo Spence 174
The Seige of St Malo / Lee Miller 178
Star Wars: The Photography as Polemicist in Vietnam / Jan Zita Grover 185
History Lessons
Photography at the Crossroads / Berenice Abbott 203
What Shall We Tell the Children? Photography and Its Text (Books) / Mary
Warner Marien 207
Crowned with Thorns: Creative Camera 1965-1978 / Val Williams 223
On Photography / Susan Sontag 230
On Photographers
What Becomes a Legend Most: The Short, Sad Career of Diane Arbus /
Catherine Lord 237
Tina Modotti: Letters to Edward Weston / Amy Rule 251
On Photography / Tina Modotti 260
Re-reading Edward Weston - Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis /
Roberta McGrath 261
Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light / Nancy Newhall 270
Good Intentions / Ingrid Sischy 272
Witkin's Others / Cynthia Chris 283
The Other Side / Nan Goldin 291
Time Exposure: The Photographs of Patrick Faigenbaum / Lauren Sedofsky 295
Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House / Jan Avgikos 300
Postmodernisms and the Politics of Looking
Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art Photography and
Postmodernism / Abigail Solomon-Godeau 307
Two Types of Photography Criticism Located in Relation to Lynn Silverman's
Series / Meaghan Morris 319
Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry into the Cultural Meanings of
Landscape Photography / Deborah Bright 333
Dykes in Context: Some Problems in Minority Representation / Jan Zita
Grover 348
Dialogue with Spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin / Laura
Mulvey 377
Between Frames / Susan Butler 386
The Pleasure of the Phototext / Jane Gallop 394
Interview: Fetishism of Black-and-White and the Vulgarity of Colour 403
Decolonizing the Image
Partial Recall / Lucy Lippard 413
The Unveiled: Algerian Women / Carole Naggar 422
Essential Differences, Photographs of Mexican Women / Coco Fusco 434
A Strategy of Appearances - The Australian Bicentenary / Anne-Marie Willis
442
Showing Our Faces - A Century of Black Women Photographed / Jewelle Gomez
448
Memories and Fictions
Gateway to a Labyrinth / Liz Heron 457
Isak Dinesen and Photo/Graphic Recollection / Susan H. Aiken 460
Remembrance / Annette Kuhn 471
Notes 479
Additional Notes on the Contributors 513
Copyrights and Permissions 518