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The new woman behind the camera /

"During the 1920s the New Woman was easy to recognize but hard to define. Hair bobbed and fashionably dressed, this iconic figure of modernity was everywhere, splashed across magazine pages or projected on the silver screen. A global phenomenon, she embodied an ideal of female empowerment based...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Andrea (Author)
Other Authors: Feldman, Kaywin (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : National Gallery of Art, [2020]
Subjects:
Women photographers > History > Exhibitions.
Women photographers.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword / Kaywin Feldman
  • Note to the Reader Preface / Andrea Nelson and Mia Fineman
  • Introduction / Andrea Nelson
  • "Such a way of life exists" : new women photographers in the studio / Andrea Nelson
  • Modern children by modern women / Elizabeth Cronin
  • Working in the margins : women and the rise of the picture press / Kristen Gresh
  • Photographers on the move : women report from Africa / Kim Sichel
  • Modern bodies / Elizabeth Otto
  • Making the New Woman : female fashion photographers in Berlin between the wars / Mila Ganeva
  • Notes
  • Biographies / Kara Felt
  • Acknowledgments / Andrea Nelson
  • Lenders to the exhibitions
  • Image credits
  • Index of photographers.