‘Who Is Afraid Of Women Photographers?’ Exhibit Celebrates History Of Female Photography
Who is afraid of women photographers? That’s not an intro to a speech about a shadowy cabal of male photographers, it’s a name of a new exhibition in France. “Who is afraid of Women Photographers? 1839-1945,” splits the history of lady photographers in two. The first part covers the years 1839-1919 and is presented in the Musee de l’Orangerie. The second, situated in the Musee d’Orsay, covers 1918-1945.
The photography exhibits attack the subject from multiple angles. For example, how did the photography pioneers use their female gender as leverage, to photograph subjects not photographed before? How did it all change after World War I? How did the photographers turn the camera on themselves, exploring their identities and femininity? See it for yourself, as the expo runs from 14th of October to 24th of January, 2016.
More info: musee-orsay.fr | musee-orangerie.fr (h/t: featureshoot)
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Self-portrait with camera
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Human Erosion in California (Migrant mother)
Madame Yevonde (1893-1975), Portrait de Joan Maude, 1932
Wanda Wulz (1903-1984), Me + Cat, 1932
Lady Frances Jocelyn (1820-1880), Intérieur, 1865
Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934), The Red Man, 1900
Christina Broom (1862-1939), Jeunes suffragettes faisant la promotion de l’exposition de la Women’s Exhibition de Knightsbridge, Londres, May 1909
Barbara Morgan (1900-1992), “We are three women – we are three million women” 1938
Helen Levitt (1918-2009), New York, c. 1940
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), Stairway of the Treasurer’s Residence: Students at Work (The Hampton Institute), 1899-1900
Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006), Doll, 1938
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), Autoportrait en travestie vélocipédiste, 1890-1900, 1899
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942), Le Président des Etats-Unis Theodore Roosevelt, Edith Roosevelt et David Rowland à l’Exposition universelles de Saint-Louis, Missouri, 1904
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), Mrs Herbert Duckworth, 12 April 1867
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), Marins dansant la valse à bord de l’USS Olympia, 1899
Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934), Gertrude Käsebier O’Malley jouant au billard avec William M. Turner, c. 1909
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), Self-Portrait in the studio, c. 1896
Ella Maillart (1903-1997), Descent from the Djangart Pass to the Chinese border. Kyrgyzstan
Regina Relang (1895-1989), Beim Rennen in Longchamp, 1936
Julia Pirotte (1907-2000), Resistance Fighters of the Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI) near Venelles in Sainte-Victoire, 1944
Elfriede Stegemeyer (1908-1988), Self Portrait, 1933
S. Hoare, Indigène des marquises, 1880-1885
Tina Modotti (1898-1942), Woman With Flag, 1928
Consuelo Kanaga, Annie Mae Merriweather, 1936
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