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In the photograph, a single woman represents the three stages of a woman's life, the past, present and future. The woman's body is painted in a bright cerulean blue, with white dots going down the center of her face, following her neck and chest. These dots are symbolic of asymmetry and traditional African body painting. She wears the colors of ...
Kathy Grove (born 1948) is an American conceptual feminist photographer. As a professional photo retoucher for fashion magazines, Grove became familiar with airbrushing and photo manipulation techniques in that industry. [1]
Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978), Iranian-Canadian photographer and curator, installation based photography; Shirin Neshat (born 1957), photos of women confronted by Islamic fundamentalism, later working with multimedia and film; Ashraf os-Saltaneh (1863–1914), first woman photographer of Iran; Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974), conceptual photography ...
Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866) produces what is possibly the earliest surviving photographic image taken by a woman. [1]Constance Fox Talbot (1811–1880), wife of the inventor Henry Fox Talbot, experiments with the process of photography, possibly becoming the first woman to take a photograph.
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
As a trained photographer, Mckinney was also enthralled by his work, particularly “Morning Sun,” in which a woman sits on the edge of a bed facing the window, her legs and face illuminated by ...
When I became involved with close-ups I needed more information in the expression. I couldn't depend on background or atmosphere. I wanted the story to come from the face. Somehow the acting just happened." Many of Sherman's photo series, like the 1981 Centerfolds, call attention to stereotypes of women in society, films, television and ...
Joanne Leonard (born 1940), photography of Oakland, Ca, autobiographical and family, and collage beinginpictures.com; Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photography of New York City, photos of the fictional Fae Richards for the film The Watermelon Woman; Rebecca Lepkoff (1916–2014), street scenes on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1940s