Title & Author:

Women photographers 1900-1975 : a legacy of light / introduction, Maggie Finch ; texts, Berenice Abbott [and fifteen others].

Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz ; Melbourne, Australia : National Gallery of Victoria, 2025.

Description:

330 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light on view at the National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia from November 28, 2025 to May 3, 2026.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Building monuments / Maggie Finch -- The city. What is photography? / Berenice Abbott -- Queer worldmaking / Meg Slater -- Aveux non avenus / Claude Cahun -- Compositions. Assembly required / Amanda Maddox -- Alive in light / Barbara Morgan -- Captured in print. Trailblazers: Tokiwa Toyoko & Yamazawa Eiko / Yamada Yuri -- The passing of time. Big time / Ania Walwicz -- Street photography, 1946 / Vanessa Proctor -- Peopl and place. The photograph / Mary Ruefle -- A suitable profession? / Maria Quirk -- The document. Chance and the tremendous emotional power of the instant / Susan van Wyk -- Dear Dorothea (October) / Tess Taylor -- In the moment. Love letters : Essie & Mikki / Carla Williams -- Portraits, intimacy, liberation. Unmaking, making, remaking / Helen Ennis -- Walking shadow (after Olive Cotton's The Photographer's Shadow, 1935) / Vanessa Proctor -- Coda. Add women and stir : photography, gender, genre and the problems of inclusion / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index of artists -- List of illustrations.

Summary:

Drawing exclusively from the National Gallery of Victoria's collection of photographs and photobooks, Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light is an illustrated photography book presenting the work and life stories of more than 80 women photographers spanning from 1900 to 1975.

ISBN:

9783775761369 (hardback)
3775761365

Subject:

National Gallery of Victoria Exhibitions.
Women photographers Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic 20th century Exhibitions.
Women photographers.
Femmes photographes.
Femmes photographes Expositions.
Photographie artistique 20e siècle Expositions.
1900-1975

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Finch, Maggie, writer of introduction.
Ennis, Helen, writer of added commentary.
Maddox, Amanda, writer of added commentary.
Proctor, Vanessa, writer of added commentary.
Quirk, Maria, writer of added commentary.
Ruefle, Mary, 1952- writer of added commentary.
Slater, Meg, writer of added commentary.
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, writer of added commentary.
Taylor, Tess, 1977- writer of added commentary.
Van Wyk, Susan, writer of added commentary.
Walwicz, Ania, writer of added commentary.
Williams, Carla, 1965- writer of added commentary.
Yamada, Yuri (Museum curator), writer of added commentary.
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991, photographer, writer of added commentary.
Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954, photographer, writer of added commentary.
Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992, photographer, writer of added commentary.
National Gallery of Victoria, issuing body, hosting institution.

Legacy of light

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order