Women photographers and feminist aesthetics / Claire Raymond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raymond, Claire, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women photographers--Biography.

Women photographers.

Photographers--Biography.

Photographers.

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Photography, Artistic.

Feminist theory.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 241 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics" makes the case for a feminist aesthetics in photography by analysing key works of twenty-two women photographers through ten thematic chapters and includes the work of cis- and trans-woman photographers. Developing the argument that through aesthetic force emerges the truly political, Claire Raymond moves beyond polarization of the aesthetic and the cultural. Instead, photographic works are read for their subversive political and cultural force, as it emerges through the aesthetics of the image. This book makes use of in-depth readings of a small number of photographs, but covers expansively the history of photography, from nineteenth-century Europe to twenty-first century Africa and Asia. Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics puts forth original interpretations of well-known photographers such as Diane Arbus, Sally Mann, and Carrie Mae Weems, analysing their work through the rubric of gender, class, and race. Finally, this book pays close attention to the representation of indigenous North Americans in photography and contemporary Native American women photographers' response to this history.

Contents:

Myths of origin: Julia Margaret Cameron and Clementina Hawarden

After and in the fracture: Claude Cahun, Lee Miller, and surrealism

Truth in Photography: Dorothea Lange and Imogen Cunningham

Rough street: Diane Arbus and Vivian Maier

Afterimages: Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman

Performances: Nan Goldin, Nikki Lee, Catherine Opie, and Zackary Drucker

The original experience: Carrie Mae Weems and Sally Mann

Ethnographies and portraits: Mary Ellen Mark, Rineke Dijkstra, and Zoe Strauss

A history of photography: Aida Muluneh and Lalla Essaydi

Counterdiscourse, seeing anew: Rebecca Belmore and Matika Wilbur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138644274

1138644277

9781138644281

1138644285

OCLC:

962304218