Women Seeing Women: From the Early Days of Photography to the Present

by Elisabeth Bronfen and Elizabeth Bronfen

Book Overview

Women have been making photographs since the medium's invention, for scientific purposes, to earn a living through portraiture or journalistic activities, and for artistic expression. For almost that long, they have been turning their cameras on other women: at first taking the easiest models available to them--their mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, and servants--and later choosing feminist standpoints or investigating the conditions of femininity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039305778X
• ISBN13: 9780393057782
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 13.0"