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Snapshots of Dangerous Women
Peter J. Cohen
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Description for Snapshots of Dangerous Women
Hardback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 150 colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
For the last two decades, Peter Cohen has been combing estate sales and flea markets collecting vernacular, or found, photography taken in the middle part of the twentieth century. In his collection are countless images of women of all ages in various unconventional activities for the time: there are women swigging booze out of a bottle, boxing, playing pick-up football, smoking, or shooting arrows or guns incongruous and playful behavior, all the while often performed in lovely dresses. Snapshots of Dangerous Women collects many of these period photographs, showcasing women from the thirties, forties, and fifties who are ... Read more
For the last two decades, Peter Cohen has been combing estate sales and flea markets collecting vernacular, or found, photography taken in the middle part of the twentieth century. In his collection are countless images of women of all ages in various unconventional activities for the time: there are women swigging booze out of a bottle, boxing, playing pick-up football, smoking, or shooting arrows or guns incongruous and playful behavior, all the while often performed in lovely dresses. Snapshots of Dangerous Women collects many of these period photographs, showcasing women from the thirties, forties, and fifties who are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Universe Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780789329127
SKU
V9780789329127
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Ref
99-15
About Peter J. Cohen
Peter J. Cohen is an art collector who lives in New York. Mia Fineman is associate curator in the department of photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She is also the author of ten books and has written about art and culture for many publications, including The New York Times, Slate.com, The Village Voice, and McSweeney s. ... Read more
Reviews for Snapshots of Dangerous Women
"[Snapshots of Dangerous Women] lets us look into the past
the early to middle part of the twentieth century
with wit and understated humor. . . . We get a satisfying number of young and not-so-young femmes fatales, vixens, and vamps, posing, mincing, moping, strutting their stuff, inclining languorously, smoking, moping, and flirting with the camera as if to say, 'I never ... Read more
the early to middle part of the twentieth century
with wit and understated humor. . . . We get a satisfying number of young and not-so-young femmes fatales, vixens, and vamps, posing, mincing, moping, strutting their stuff, inclining languorously, smoking, moping, and flirting with the camera as if to say, 'I never ... Read more