Category: Identities
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Landscape and Gender
Some early women photographers did do serious topographical work in the late nineteenth and early 20C: Evelyn Cameron, Laura Gilpin, Frances Benjamin Johnson Elizabeth Ellen Roberts Artistic photography, continuing the ‘genteel’ occupations for lady sketchers and watercolourists, was also conducted by: Anna Atkins Julia Margaret Cameron Lady Hawarden Lady Elizabeth Eastlake But their work was more closely…
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Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin (17 February 1931 – 27 May 2005) was a British photographer known for her black-and-white landscapes of the British countryside and coast. Official website British Library archive: including approximately 11,000 exhibition prints, the entire contents of her studio, and correspondence with some of her subjects. Google images detailed overview of her work from…
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Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth currently lives and works between Berlin and New York. http://www.thomasstruth32.com/bigsize/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Struth Urban Dusseldorf http://www.thomasstruth32.com/bigsize/photographs/duesseldorf/index.html In 1976, as part of a student exhibition at the Academy,…
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Frank Newbould
One of the most striking campaigns in relation to the developing mythology of the British rural landscape was a series of posters painted during 1942 by Frank Newbould (1887–1951).The resemblance between Newbould’s posters and travel advertising of the time is also worth noting. Substituting strap lines encouraging would be holidaymakers to explore their country with a command to…
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Jo Spence
Jo Spence (1934–92) had a highly politicised approach to photography, creating photographs that run counter to the idealised imagery offered by advertising. Spence often worked collaboratively and sought alternative distribution models, laminating work for durability and renting out her photography to conferences, libraries, universities and public spaces to broaden its audience. She also documented her own struggles…
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Simon Roberts
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Ingrid Pollard
Website Through her practice, Guyanese-born artist Ingrid Pollard addresses her feelings towards the rural countryside as a non-white British subject, articulating her profound sense of being an outsider to these spaces. In some of her projects, Pollard hand tints black-and-white prints. This strategy has a dual purpose: firstly, it is a play on the idea of ‘colour’ in terms…
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Harandani Dikko Notes
Mali website a bit claustrophobic La moustiquaire beautiful black and white images through mosquito nets. Can’t download any of the text. Has facebook page.
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Francois_Xavier Gbre Rough Notes
Mali website No artist’s statement or introduction. Very simple white portfolio site. Has links to exhibitions and press releases etc. Tracks review very atmoshperic view of urban decay Mali Militari Mes tissages urbains