Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography

Susan Fisher Sterling; Kathryn Wat; Lucy Soutter; Shelley Rice

ISBN 10: 1857595386 / ISBN 13: 9781857595383

Edité par Scala Publishers / Nat. Museum of Women in Arts, 2008

A propos de cet article

First edition 2008. Published in conjunction with the exhibition by Scala Publishers / Nat. Museum of Women in Arts. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition as new inside, square, tight and clean book, no edgewear, lower corners slightly bumped, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ fine, bright, no tears, no chips, lower corners with slight creases, not clipped. Folio, 136 pages, illustrated throughout. Large book will require additional postage for international orders.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography
• Éditeur: Scala Publishers / Nat. Museum of Women in Arts
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1857595386
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781857595383
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

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 Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. This book features the work of two generations of artists whose portraiture, self-portraiture, and narrative photographs have indelibly inflected our understanding of gender and identity over the past thirty years. More specifically, it focuses on how role models and role-playing have been central to the art, meaning, and social function of contemporary photography."Role Models" begins with the early 1980s, a time when many American women artists and photographers such as Eleanor Antin and Cindy Sherman realised that they could be both the creator and the subject of their work, while others such as Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Mary Ellen Mark sought to document the varied roles that women and girls try on in their struggle to find an identity that fits. "Role Models" also considers how, by the late 1990s, a generation of photographers including Anna Gaskell, Catherine Opie, and Nikki S. Lee had become exemplars for a new cadre of younger women artists by collapsing old boundaries between postmodern and documentary photography, establishing new post-feminist sensibilities and evolving more fluid concepts of female identity.

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Fisher Sterling is Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Kathryn A. Wat is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum.