ABSTRACT

This selection of women's writings on photography proposes a new and different history, demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over 150 years, focusing it more deeply and, with the advent of feminist approaches, increasingly challenging its orthodoxies. Included in the book are Rosalind Krauss, Ingrid Sischy, Vicki Goldberg and Carol Squiers.

part |49 pages

The Nineteenth Century in Europe

part |66 pages

New Visions – The Avant-Gardes and After

part |13 pages

Distant Voices: Fashion and Portraiture in the Studio in the Inter-War Years

chapter |3 pages

Photography, 1914

chapter |2 pages

In Pursuit of Perfection

chapter |3 pages

Early Years

part |70 pages

Pictures and Stories: Documentary and Reportage in North America

chapter |7 pages

Life Begins

chapter |11 pages

Looking at Life

chapter |8 pages

A Crisis in the Intimate

chapter |5 pages

One Time, One Place

chapter |5 pages

The Photo League

chapter |4 pages

Documentary Photography

chapter |5 pages

The Politics of Photography

chapter |7 pages

The Siege of St Malo

part |34 pages

History Lessons

part |70 pages

On Photographers

part |105 pages

Postmodernisms and the Politics of Looking

chapter |8 pages

Between Frames

chapter |9 pages

The Pleasure of the Phototext

part |44 pages

Decolonising the Image

part |24 pages

Memories and Fictions

chapter |3 pages

Gateway to a Labyrinth

chapter |8 pages

Remembrance