Now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and then on to the National Gallery in Washington D.C., a compelling and ambitious exhibition of work by female photographers from the early 20th century aims to set the record straight vis-à-vis a discipline whose history, as written up till now, has been largely androcentric.
Ilse Bing (German, 1899–1998), Self-Portrait with Leica, 1931, gelatin silver print, 10.51 × 12 in/26.7 × 30.5 cm. Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
© Ilse Bing Estate. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Photography revolutionized the way we see the world. But it also, as this ambitious exhibition and its informative catalog set out to demonstrate, helped revolutionize the place of women in the world, not only through the image of the “new woman” it disseminated globally but also through the employment opportunities it offered a female workforce that was still, during the first hundred years of the medium’s existence, excluded from many traditional jobs. As written up till now, the history of photography, posit the curators Andrea Nelson and Mia Fineman, has largely eclipsed…
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