The Positive Image: Women Photographers in Turn-of-the-Century America

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SUNY Press, 1 gen 1988 - 191 pagine
The Positive Image tells the largely untold story of women photographers in turn of the century America. Women like Gertrude Käsebier, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Alice Austen, Catherine Weed Ward, and Eva Watson-Schütze were among thousands of women who as professional and amateur photographers sought personal, artistic, and professional fulfillment while still connected to the traditional domestic environment.

These women created a positive experience for themselves in photography through an identifiable female network of women photographers, through membership in camera clubs, and in many cases, through their association with photography great Alfred Stieglitz. Theirs became an alliance between women, art, culture, and technology in a time of intense social change in the United States.
 

Sommario

There Will Be a New Era
1
A New Profession for Women
17
Group Portrait
34
Association The Watchword of the Age
53
Alfred Stieglitz and Women of the PhotoSecession
86
Female Visions as Social History
104
Notes
135
Bibliography
167
Index
185
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C. Jane Gover teaches American History at Adelphi and Hofstra Universities.

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