Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Judy Dater uses photography as an instrument for challenging traditional conceptions of the female body. Her early work paralleled the emergence of the feminist movement and her work became strongly associated with it. At a time when female frontal nudity was considered risqué Dater pushed the boundaries by taking pictures of the naked female ...
In the late twentieth century, the second wave feminist movement in the United States and the gay liberation movement following the Stonewall riots inspired efforts to create a cohesive lesbian identity with dedicated cultural artifacts such as explicitly lesbian art, including lesbian photography. These images developed new artistic trends ...
This image, addressing the role of religious and art historical iconography in the subordination of women, became "one of the most iconic images of the feminist art movement." [17] [18] Photography became a common medium used by feminist artists. It was used, in many ways, to show the "real" woman.
Judy Seigel (1930–2017) was an American painter and photographer, writer and editor, and feminist activist in New York City.Called a legend in alternative photographic processes, Seigel taught photography at the Pratt Institute for fourteen years.
Vera Elkan (1908–2008), remembered for her images of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War; Phumzile Khanyile (born 1991) Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000), South African's first female World War II correspondent, also known for images of South Africa; Carla Liesching (born 1985), visual artist specialising in photography
Wilke first gained renown with her "vulval" terra-cotta sculptures in the 1960s. [15]Her sculptures, first exhibited in New York in the late 1960s, are often mentioned as some of the first explicit vaginal imagery arising from the women's liberation movement, [15] and they became her signature form which she made in various media, colors and sizes, including large floor installations ...
Margaret Watkins (1884–1969) was a Canadian photographer who is remembered for her innovative contributions to advertising photography. [1] She was also a pioneering modernist photographer; her still-life images of household objects arranged in compositions influenced by abstract art were highly innovative and influential. [2]
From the 1960s through the 1980s, her work appeared in such publications as Life, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. [4] Davies aligned herself with the Gay Liberation Front and contributed images to Come Out!, a magazine published by the GLF. [6] She documented the first [Pride Parade] in New York City on 28 June 1970. [7]