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The most successful was ‘Solo’, a similar 32 page black and white format to Kamera, with a colour cover, but featuring just one model in each issue. It was launched in Spring 1958 and ran as a monthly production in parallel with Kamera to Issue No.61 (1968). In practice, like Kamera, Solo was not always published every month. However, there ...
In the two decades before the end of the millennium, Black female photographers and artists played a significant role in shaping the cultural landscape of the UK, fostering a radical and unique voice that was a key driving force of the independent art scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
Aug 12, 2024 · Photographs in her collection document the march on International Women's Day in 1971 in which women walked from Boston to Cambridge in a demonstration to demand a women's center. Some of the participants seized a Harvard University building in protest, occupying the building for ten days.
- Abigail Heyman,"Growing Up Female," 1974
- Carrie Mae Weems, The Kitchen Table Series, 1990
- Donna Ferrato, "I Am Unbeatable," 2007-2016
- Liora K, "The Feminist Photos," 2012
- Tomoko Sawada, "Omiai," 2001
- Shirin Neshat, "Women of Allah," 1993-97
- Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, "A Portrait of Domestic Violence," 2013
- Jemima Stehli, "Strip," 2000
- Bettye Lane, Photographs, 1957-2007
When photojournalist Abigail Heyman died in 2013, she was given an obituary in no less than the New York Times. "Ms. Heyman," the Times wrote, "was known best for her 1974 book, 'Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal,' a sort of illustrated encyclopedia of women performing self-limiting roles." The collection was filled with images of suffoca...
The Carrie Mae Weems "Kitchen Table Series" is famous; even if you've never seen it in person, you may have come across some of its images in histories of feminist art. Done in 1990, it was designed by Weems as a single-perspective series with one light source over a kitchen table, documenting the inner domestic life of a black woman raising a chil...
To call "I Am Unbeatable" a series is almost cheating; Donna Ferrato has dedicated decades to documenting the impacts of domestic violence and abuse against women, beginning, as she told TIME in 2012, with a Playboy commission in 1982 that rapidly turned into a documentation of an abusive relationship. Since then, Ferrato has produced groundbreakin...
Photographer Liora K's "The Feminist Photos" went viral when the photo series was first published in 2012, popping up everywhere from The Huffington Post to Cosmopolitan. It's not difficult to see why: the simple style, which involved feminist statements about autonomy, bodily control, and women's rights written across bare female bodies, was easil...
Artist Tomoko Sawada works with self-portraiture to look at gender, sexuality, and societal roles in a new, knowing way, buther OMIAI seriesis one of her most famous productions. OMIAI takes the form of a series of self-portraits, in the style favored by Japanese families in pursuit of suitors for their children (a process called omiai). Tomoko too...
"Women Of Allah" is one of the great works of feminist Islamic art. The artist herself, Iranian photographer and painter Shirin Neshat, has been in political exile from Iran since 1996, and the "Women Of Allah" series was designed to articulate the contrast between traditional Iranian society and the restrictions of Islamic fundamentalism that took...
The focus of Sara Naomi Lewkowicz's photo series was unintentional: what was meant to be a documentation of the problems of life after prison rapidly become a series about domestic violence afterone of the subjects, Shane, became violent with his partner Maggie in front of the photographer and Maggie's children. "In that moment," Lewkowicz told the...
British artist Jemima Stehli's "Strip" series is a fascinating perspective on the male gaze, female bodies and power in images; the series, created in 2000, featured Stehli in a studio with a collection of men she knew, each of whom watched her strip while controlling the camera. As she took off her clothes, they chose the precise moment at which t...
This isn't a photo series as much as it's "the entire working life of the photographer". If you do know photojournalist Bettye Lane's work, it's likely her famous photographs of the Stonewall riots, which have come to symbolize the entire struggle as it unfolded in 1969. Lane also, however, was strongly interested in the women's movement, and would...
Jul 24, 2023 · Suzanne Cheriton is one of Canada’s most established and respected arts and entertainment communications professionals. With over 20 years of career experience Suzanne has represented film, television, and performing arts producers and artists at various stages of the presentation cycle including unit publicity, festival launches, theatrical ...
Nov 29, 2018 · Here, she photographed housewives, bank clerks, models and strippers, as well as images of women on posters and magazine covers to highlight the manner in which women were constantly...
Apr 10, 2017 · A new book by Charlotte Jansen looks at the growing number of female photographers who are using their agency to shape how society looks at women.
