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• Title:A history of women photographers / Naomi Rosenblum.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rosenblum, Naomi.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, 2010.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TR139 .R67 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Women photographers--Biography.
  Photographers--Biography.
  Photography--History.
  
• Genre/Form: Biographies.
  
• Edition:3rd ed.
  
• Description:432 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
  
• Summary:In this landmark volume, Rosenblum (A World History of Photography) examines sympathetically the achievements of women in photography since its invention in 1839, and highlights society's failure to give them appropriate recognition. One research obstacle the author encountered was the 19th-century practice of men taking credit for work done by women. Here is work from 250 female camera artists, from Julia Margaret Cameron (b. 1815) to Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949), who, despite strong cultural resistance, mastered everything from early wet-plate views and portraits to 35 millimeter photojournalism, often initiating aesthetic and commercial improvements. Her chronicle of women's part in each era's artistic movements and media transitions, plus capsule biographies with an in-depth bibliography and index, make this a seminal reference work. The author's choice of 263 photographs seems to favor the esoteric, bringing to light a largely unknown world in vivid originality and broad archival conception.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780789209986 (alk. paper)
  0789209985 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Why women?
  Color plates
  At the beginning, 1839-90
  Not just for fun: women become professionals, 1880-1915
  Portraiture, 1890-1915
  Art and recreation: pleasures of the amateur, 1890-1920
  Photography between the wars: Europe, 1920-40
  Photography between the wars: North America, 1920-40
  Photography as information, 1940-2000
  The feminist vision, 1970-95
  Photography as art, 1940-2000.