Raymond Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-24246-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

This book is ideal for students of Photography, Art History, Art and Visual Culture and Gender Studies, particularly those studying art and feminism, feminist art history, women artists, and women photographers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raymond, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.