Role Models Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography

Name: Role Models Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography
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ISBN: 9781857595383

ISBN-10: 1857595386

ISBN-13: 9781857595383

Edition: 2008

Authors: Susan Fisher Sterling, Kathryn Wat, Lucy Soutter, Shelley Rice, Kathryn A. Wat

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In today's image-conscious world, photography is one of the most powerful mediators of our sense of self. Exploring the ways in which female identity is constructed and mediated through the art of photography is the central theme of this fascinating, fully illustrated book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Musuem of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. The exhibition will feature the work of two generations of artists whose portraiture, selfportraiture and narrative photographs have indelibly inflected our understanding of gender and identity over the past 25 years. More specifically it will focus on how role models and role-playing have been central to the art,…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Scala, Editions
Publication date: 1/16/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 9.50" wide x 12.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



Preface



Enigmatic Spectacle: Key Strategies in Contemporary Staged Photography



Crosscurrents: Models, Migrations, and Modernisms



Fashioning Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography



Plates


Artist Biographies


Exhibition Checklist