Illuminations

by Heron, Liz

• ISBN13: 9780822317920
• ISBN10: 0822317923
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

The first anthology of its kind,Illuminationspresents a comprehensive selection of womenrs"s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which womenrs"s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians, and practitioners. Readers will find Julia Margaret Cameronrs"s bold description of her photographic method, Rosalind Kraussrs"s exploration of what the camera means for Surrealism, Margaret Bourke-White and Carol Squiers with differing perspectives onLifemagazine, as well as essays by Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Lucy Lippard, Berenice Abbott, Dorthea Lange, and many others.Illuminationsbegins with a short piece on the daguerreotype by Elizabeth Barrett Browning then moves through the avant-garde influence of Dada, Bauhaus, and surrealism, to fashion and portrait photography, continuing with documentary and reportage, the emergence of feminist analysis, and postmodern and postcolonial criticism. Encompassing many varied points of view, this volume offers pieces on individual photographers such as Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams, Barbara Kruger, Edward Weston, and Cindy Sherman along with theoretical work by contemporary writers including Jane Gallop, Coco Fusco, and Laura Mulvey. An historic anthology,Illuminationsshows that women have been writing about photography from its beginnings and have intervened in the key debates of the past century and a half. It will welcomed by those interested in photography, gender studies, and women and the arts.Contributors. Berenice Abbott, Dawn Ades, Susan H. Aiken, Jan Avgikos, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret Bourke-White, Deborah Bright, Susan Butler, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cynthia Chris, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Gen Doy, Olive Edis, Ute Eskildsen, Andrea Fisher, Gisegrave;le Freund, Coco Fusco, Jane Gallop, Nan Goldin, Jewelle Gomez, Jan Zita Grover, Judith Mara Gutman, Maria Morris Hambourg, Liz Heron, Alice Hughes, Karen Knorr, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Kuhn, Dorothea Lange, Therese Lichtenstein, Lucy Lippard, Catherine Lord, Mary Warner Marien, Elizabeth McCausland, Roberta McGrath, Lee Miller, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Laura Mulvey, Carole Naggar, Nancy Newhall, Amy Rule, Lauren Sedofsky, Ingrid Sischy, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Susan Sontag, Jo Spence, Carol Squiers, Varvara Stepanova, Anne Tucker, Eudora Welty, Dorothy Wilding, Val Wiliams, Anne-Marie Willis, Madame Yevonde

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Nineteenth Century in Europe

On the Daguerrotype

A Lady Photographer who Never Photographs Men

Annals of My Glass House

Photography During the July Monarchy 1830-1848

The Camera Against the Paris Commune

Extending the Grand Tour

Tracing Nadar

New Visions - The Avant-Gardes and After

Germany: The Weimar Republic

Photomontage Varvara Stepanova

The Supremacy of the Message - Dada

A Hundred Years of Photography

I Worked with Man Ray

The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism

A Mutable Mirror: Claude Cahun

The Armed Vision Disarmed - Radical Formalism from Weapon to Style

Distant Voices: Fashion and Portraiture in the Studio in the Inter-War Years

Olive Edis: Photography, 1914

Exhibitions and Commercial Work

In Pursuit of Perfection

Early Years

Pictures and Stories: Documentary and Reportage in North America

Life Begins

Looking at Life

The Assignment I'll Never Forget

A Crisis in the Intimate

One Time, One Place

The Photo League

Documentary Photography

The Politics of Photography

The Seige of St Malo

Star Wars: The Photography as Polemicist in Vietnam

History Lessons

Photography at the Crossroads

What Shall We Tell the Children? Photography and Its Text (Books)

Crowned with Thorns: Creative Camera 1965-1978

On Photography

On Photographers

What Becomes a Legend Most: The Short, Sad Career of Diane Arbus

Tina Modotti: Letters to Edward Weston

On Photography

Re-reading Edward Weston - Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis

Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light

Good Intentions

Witkin's Others

The Other Side

Time Exposure: The Photographs of Patrick Faigenbaum

Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House

Postmodernisms and the Politics of Looking

Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism

Two Types of Photography Criticism Located in Relation to Lynn Silverman's Series

Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry into the Cultural Meanings of Landscape Photography

Dykes in Context: Some Problems in Minority Representation

Dialogue with Spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin

Between Frames

The Pleasure of the Phototext

Interview: Fetishism of Black-and-White and the Vulgarity of Colour

Decolonizing the Image

Partial Recall

The Unveiled: Algerian Women

Essential Differences, Photographs of Mexican Women

A Strategy of Appearances - The Australian Bicentenary

Showing Our Faces - A Century of Black Women Photographed

Memories and Fictions

Gateway to a Labyrinth

Isak Dinesen and Photo/Graphic Recollection

Remembrance

Notes

Additional Notes on the Contributors

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