Illuminations
by Heron, Liz; Williams, ValFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-10-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women's writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| The Nineteenth Century in Europe | |
| On the Daguerrotype | |
| A Lady Photographer who Never Photographs Men | |
| Annals of My Glass House | |
| Photography During the July Monarchy 1830-1848 | |
| The Camera Against the Paris Commune | |
| Extending the Grand Tour | |
| Tracing Nadar | |
| New Visions - The Avant-Gardes and After | |
| Germany: The Weimar Republic | |
| Photomontage Varvara Stepanova | |
| The Supremacy of the Message - Dada | |
| A Hundred Years of Photography | |
| I Worked with Man Ray | |
| The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism | |
| A Mutable Mirror: Claude Cahun | |
| The Armed Vision Disarmed - Radical Formalism from Weapon to Style | |
| Distant Voices: Fashion and Portraiture in the Studio in the Inter-War Years | |
| Olive Edis: Photography, 1914 | |
| Exhibitions and Commercial Work | |
| In Pursuit of Perfection | |
| Early Years | |
| Pictures and Stories: Documentary and Reportage in North America | |
| Life Begins | |
| Looking at Life | |
| The Assignment I'll Never Forget | |
| A Crisis in the Intimate | |
| One Time, One Place | |
| The Photo League | |
| Documentary Photography | |
| The Politics of Photography | |
| The Seige of St Malo | |
| Star Wars: The Photography as Polemicist in Vietnam | |
| History Lessons | |
| Photography at the Crossroads | |
| What Shall We Tell the Children? Photography and Its Text (Books) | |
| Crowned with Thorns: Creative Camera 1965-1978 | |
| On Photography | |
| On Photographers | |
| What Becomes a Legend Most: The Short, Sad Career of Diane Arbus | |
| Tina Modotti: Letters to Edward Weston | |
| On Photography | |
| Re-reading Edward Weston - Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis | |
| Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light | |
| Good Intentions | |
| Witkin's Others | |
| The Other Side | |
| Time Exposure: The Photographs of Patrick Faigenbaum | |
| Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House | |
| Postmodernisms and the Politics of Looking | |
| Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism | |
| Two Types of Photography Criticism Located in Relation to Lynn Silverman's Series | |
| Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry into the Cultural Meanings of Landscape Photography | |
| Dykes in Context: Some Problems in Minority Representation | |
| Dialogue with Spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin | |
| Between Frames | |
| The Pleasure of the Phototext | |
| Interview: Fetishism of Black-and-White and the Vulgarity of Colour | |
| Decolonizing the Image | |
| Partial Recall | |
| The Unveiled: Algerian Women | |
| Essential Differences, Photographs of Mexican Women | |
| A Strategy of Appearances - The Australian Bicentenary | |
| Showing Our Faces - A Century of Black Women Photographed | |
| Memories and Fictions | |
| Gateway to a Labyrinth | |
| Isak Dinesen and Photo/Graphic Recollection | |
| Remembrance | |
| Notes | |
| Additional Notes on the Contributors | |
| Copyrights and Permissions | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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