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

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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