1st Edition

Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics

By Claire Raymond Copyright 2017
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics makes the case for a feminist aesthetics in photography by analysing key works of twenty-two women photographers, including cis- and trans-woman photographers. Claire Raymond provides close readings of key photographs spanning the history of photography, from nineteenth-century Europe to twenty-first century Africa and Asia. She offers original... Read more

Introduction

1. Julia Margaret Cameron and Clementina Hawarden: Myths of Origin

2. After and in the Fracture: Claude Cahun, Lee Miller, and Surrealism

3. Truth in Photography: Dorothea Lange and Imogen Cunningham

4. Rough Street: Diane Arbus and Vivian Maier

5. Afterimages: Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman

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

7. Carrie Mae Weems and Sally Mann: The Original Experience

8. Ethnographies and Portraits: Mary Ellen Mark, Rineke Dijkstra, Zoe Strauss

9. Aida Muluneh and Lalla Essaydi: A History of Photography

10. Counterdiscourse, Seeing Anew: Rebecca Belmore and Matika Wilbur

Postscript

Exergue, on Dayanita Singh

Index

Biography

Claire Raymond teaches Art History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Francesca Woodman’s Dark Gaze: the Diazotypes and Other Late Works; Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South; and Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime. Her research focuses on aesthetics, poetics, and the intersections of cultural trauma and representation.