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A H I S T O RY OF WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
UPDATED AND EXPANDED BY NAOMI ROSENBLUM
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Walter Rosenblum
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Why Women?
COLOR PLATES CHAPTER 1 13 39
Portraiture, 18901915
CHAPTER 4 93
Jain Kelly
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 360
Peter E. Palmquist
INDEX 388
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CO LO R PL ATES
ABOVE, BOTTOM P L AT E 8 : D E B O R A H T U R B E V I L L E ( B O R N 19 3 7 ) . I TA L I A N VO G U E , PA R I S , 1 9 8 1 , 1 9 8 1 . F RE S S O N P R I N T. C O U R T E S Y O F S T A L E Y- W I S E G A L L E R Y, N E W Y O R K .
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evoke deep-seated longings for personalities and products. Photomontage played an especially important role in advertisingone that remains viable to this day. The preference for photographic rather than graphic images evinced by advertising agencies in the late 1920s and early 1930s was based on their element of surprise and the power to carry conviction.32 Advertising photography was promoted in Germany by the publishing empire known as the House of Ullstein, which needed good photographs to illustrate the ads in its numerous magazines and advertising brochures. For women, advertising was one of the most dicult branches of the medium in which to succeed because, as the photographer Germaine Krull noted, agencies for selling photographs seem to have been reserved for men.33 Nonetheless, a pioneer of the new commercial photography was Elsbeth Heddenhausen, director of the photographic studio for the Ullstein publishing enterprise.34 The increase in advertising in Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s made it possible for a number of women to achieve renown in the eld. Among them were the former Bauhaus students Ellen Auerbach (plate 132) and Grete Stern (plate 133), who formed a Berlin studio known as foto ringl + pit in 1930 and later became partners in a studio in London. The two were acclaimed by one critic for their inborn womanly instinct for the delicate nuances of textiles; a contrasting view held that their images provided a characteristic rather than a attering (that is, feminine) look at such stus.35 Although not associated with the Bauhaus, Aenne Biermann, working in Gera, Germany, was perhaps the most resolute in her devotion to the appearance of the object.36 Her advertising images, whether of organic or manufactured objects, transformed those substances into seductive enticements. Florence Henri, working in Paris, adapted her congurations of spheres and mirrors into arresting designs using Lanvin perfume bottles and other products, although it is not clear whether these images were actually used as ads.37 Nora Dumas joined her husband in the Parisian studio DumasSatigny to supply a range of advertising images; Laure Albin-Guillot, considered the doyenne of French women professionals by the 1930s, also supplied such images to agencies and periodicals.
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osenblums book is a necessary companion to any available survey of photographys history. . . . Weaving together biographical fact, social history, and critical observation, Rosenblum develops a dynamic view of womens engagement with camera work. K E N N E T H B A K E R , S A N F R A N C I S C O S U N D A Y E X A M I N E R A N D C H R O N I C L E here are surprises in every chapter of this well-written history, and the supporting material, which includes bibliographies and brief biographies of almost 250 photographers, is equally valuable. D O U G L A S B A L Z , C H I C A G O T R I B U N E
Naomi Rosenblums well-illustrated A History of Women Photographers is certain to be the denitive study for many
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