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Women's Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture

by Judith Fryer Davidov

Photography, history, and the politics of representation

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Photography, history, and the politics of representation

Judith Fryer Davidov examines photography as a force in shaping historical narratives and ideas of difference within American visual culture. The book links representations of “otherness” to questions of self-definition, treating images not simply as records but as sites where identity and power are constructed. Its framework centers on an interconnected group of women artists whose relationships of influence, exchange, and friendship provide a way to trace these questions across photographic practice.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students of photography and visual culture
  • Readers interested in feminist art history
  • Those studying representation, identity, and documentary images

Themes

Photography and historyOtherness and self-representationWomen artistsAmerican visual cultureIdentity and power

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Book overview

Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists linked by time, interaction, influence, and friendship-one that included Gertrude K
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