Tag: gender

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Cindy Sherman

    Photographer Cindy Sherman (born 1954) initially used herself as model in many of her works. She has taken a stance against sexism and stereotyping since her early photo-series Centerfolds or Horizontals (1981). This examined the poses in men’s or pornographic magazines of the time. The images were rejected by the commissioning publication  ArtForum as reinforcing stereotypes.…