Dating from the 1950s to the present, the the photographs in the exhibition reveal how the explosive growth in numbers of
women photographers since the 1950s, when Bunny Yeager herself was a pioneering photographer, has changed the way women are represented.
Not exact matches
If the exclusion of male
photographers from the book seems self - indulgent — and it does,
since the collection docs not offer a uniquely feminine perspective — we can perhaps excuse the snub by recalling the path of societal indifference and recalcitrance
women athletes have had to follow.
In 1965, Chase - Riboud traveled to the People's Republic of China with her first husband, French
photographer Marc Eugène Riboud, as the first American
woman invited to visit the country
since its political revolution.
But a solo exhibition of Mann's work, titled Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, which opens at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C. March 4, considers her legacy not as a Southerner, or a Virginian, or even as a
woman - artist, but as an internationally - important
photographer who has worked tirelessly on her craft
since 1969.
Although a work by Andreas Gursky, a German
photographer, has
since displaced Ms Sherman's picture from the top spot, she is still one of the few
women artists whose auction prices are in the same ballpark as her male peers.