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.
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 Cameron's bold
description of her photographic method, Rosalind Krauss's
exploration of what the camera means for Surrealism, Margaret
Bourke-White and Carol Squiers with differing perspectives on Life
magazine, as well as essays by Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Lucy
Lippard, Berenice Abbott, Dorthea Lange, and many others.
Illuminations begins 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, Illuminations shows 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, Gisele 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
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