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Women´s Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture
Judith Fryer Davidov
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Description for Women´s Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture
Paperback. Explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. This book exhibits the work of American women; tells their absorbing stories; and discusses representations of North American Indians, African Americans,and the migrant poor. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 512 pages, 220 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCP; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 839.
Women’s Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists linked by time, interaction, influence, and friendship—one that included Gertrude Käsebier, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Laura Gilpin.
Women’s Camera Work ranges from American women’s photographic practices during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to a study of landscape photography. Using contemporary cultural studies discourse to critique influential male-centered historiography and ... Read more
Women’s Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists linked by time, interaction, influence, and friendship—one that included Gertrude Käsebier, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Laura Gilpin.
Women’s Camera Work ranges from American women’s photographic practices during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to a study of landscape photography. Using contemporary cultural studies discourse to critique influential male-centered historiography and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Series
New Americanists
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822320678
SKU
V9780822320678
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Ref
99-1
About Judith Fryer Davidov
Judith Fryer Davidov is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of The Faces of Eve: Women in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel and Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Constructions of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather.
Reviews for Women´s Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture
“Davidov is an eloquent and passionate reader of texts and images. . . . She gives us a chance to think about a set of relationships among major American women photographers that few people know about.”—Iris Tillman Hill, Duke University “What a splendid achievement this book is. It is rich in texture, nuanced, fascinating—an outstanding work.”—Miles Orvell, Temple University