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Women's Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture  
Author: Judith Fryer Davidov
ISBN: 0822320673
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review
Women's Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists linked by time, interaction, influence, and friendship-one that included Gertrude Käsebier, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Laura Gilpin.

Women's Camera Work ranges from American women's photographic practices during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to a study of landscape photography. Using contemporary cultural studies discourse to critique influential male-centered historiography and the male-dominated art world, Davidov exhibits the work of these women; tells their absorbing stories; and discusses representations of North American Indians, African Americans, Asian Americans, and the migrant poor. Evaluating these photographers' distinct contributions to constructions of Americanness and otherness, she helps us to discover the power of reading images closely, and to learn to see through these women's eyes.

In presenting one of the most important strands of American photography, this richly illustrated book will interest students of American visual culture, women's studies, and general readers alike.

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

Explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness tell stories about the self. Concentrates on the lives and work of a particular network of artists linked by time, interaction, influence, and friendship, one that included Gertrude Ksebier, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Laura Gilpin. Tells the stories of these photographers and their contributions to constructions of Americanness and otherness, and discusses their representations of North American Indians, African Americans, Asian Americans, and the migrant poor, as well as their landscape work. Includes b&w photos. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Davidov is an eloquent and passionate reader of texts and images... — Iris Tillman Hill

     



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