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Art Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Deborah Solomon  [NY Times]
"The big boys of the art world have long relished painting raunchy pictures. But now, it's female artists who are becoming famous by being naughty.

Dial "P" for Panties: Narrative Photography in the 1990s - by Lucy Soutter
As a photographer, an art historian and a feminist, I have been bothered for some time by a particular strand of contemporary photography. It started as a joke: I had seen so many quasi-narrative art photographs of half-dressed young women that I began referring to them as their own genre, "panty photography." As with many inside jokes, once I had coined the term, I began to find validation for it everywhere. Panties seemed to be proliferating in art galleries and magazines. The New York Times ran an article about the current cross-over between art, fashion and pornography, and shortly thereafter an article about hot young female artists and their hot new work.

The Women Behind Photography's New Golden Age by Deborah Solomon  [NY Times]
"The idea of photography as a masculine pursuit, a kind of conquest, has been advanced by countless photographers. ... That was then. Today, we are witnessing a golden age of photography by women."  [NY Times, September 9, 2001]
 

****interviews:
 

Jane Hunt  photographer - on portraiture for actors (e.g daughter Helen) and others
 
 

CD cover image by photographer   Sonia Keshishian  "Photography is totally about expressing myself from the inside."
 

Joan Lauren  photographer; author of book: "Portraits of Life, With Love"
 

...sites:

Lily, 1930 by Dr. Dain L. Tasker

images from Artland "offers the highest quality prints  of paintings and photographs selected from  leading museums, archives and artists."

Bearded Iris, c.1930, Dain L. Tasker vintage gelatin silver print radiograph

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photography by Cheryl Townsend "Fold" [left] - from her gallery site "Studio Barbie" [right] from  site of W.A.R.M. Womens Art Recognition Movement

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B&W Magazine  "..a high-quality journal for collectors of fine photography. ...
A fundamental function.. is to promote artists whose work is not found in mainstream galleries."

Blackmagic Photo Colorization
"Easily add color to black and white photographs. Enhance photos and restore images with this powerful
yet simple to use graphics manipulation software."

EGG: The Arts Show / PBS photography page

Kodak

Photobetty**"An e-zine created to be an amazing resource for women photographers everywhere."

Women In Photography International  "promotes the visibility of women photographers and their work."   

>  image from author website: cynthialeitichsmith.com for novel:*Rain Is Not My Indian Name

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There is a difference between the digital palette and the film palette. Digital gives me a more subtle, more pastel, less saturated image, which is interesting in its own way. And then, of course, I can play all sorts of games with the image in Photoshop. ... I'll work with color levels and curves, hue and saturation. I don't do any photo composition. I don't like to follow the path of what's trendy. ......Pete Turner [uses conventional, and Nikon digital cameras]  [quotes/photos: nikonnet.com]

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.. .. Canon PowerShot S200 2MP

.. .. Nikon Coolpix 885 3MP Digital Camera

Canon EOS 6.3MP  Digital Rebel Camera

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software:  Adobe Photoshop 6.0 *****Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Upgrade - Mac

book: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 7 in 24 Hours by Carla Rose

video:  Henri Cartier-Bresson "... Filmed in color to resemble black and white, like the photographs for which French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is so famous.."

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magazine subscriptions :**--Popular Photography**--Photographic

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**mbooks :

Rebecca Solnit.  River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West In the 1870s, at a racetrack built by railroad baron Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge invented high-speed photography. With his camera, he cut time into fractions of a second and laid it out in slices. Never before had human eyes seen a trotting horse distinctly, and the photographs astounded horsemen and artists, especially when Muybridge set the film in motion and the horse reeled fluidly across the screen. Today it is difficult to understand the pictures' impact, but 2001 NBCC finalist Solnit (As Eve Said to the Serpent) vividly recreates the wonder that greeted those primitive movies. Although she points her lens at Muybridge, her true subject is the perceptual revolution of the 19th century when the railroad, the telegraph and the camera transformed the experience of space and time. English-born Muybridge launched his career in 1867 with scenes of Yosemite and San Francisco. He soon began the experiments with "instantaneous" photography that led to the famous motion studies.

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From the Heart: The Power of Photography - A Collector's Choice - by Adam D. Weinberg The Sondra Gilman Collection, renowned for its uncommon vision and aesthetic clarity, includes the work of such artists as Paul Strand, Eugène Atget, Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Misrach.  Stimulating and informative, this book is at once an overview of one collector's eye and an introduction to the art of looking at photographs. Each of the nearly sixty artists included is represented by a brief biography and an insightful quotation from each photographer.  The preface by Mark Haworth-Booth discusses the great photography collections of the past, while Adam D. Weinberg's introduction illuminates particular images in the Sondra Gilman Collection. [Amazon.com summary]

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**book:**Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer by Margaret Hooks _ __ __ __ _"Roses" [1925] >

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Untitled by Diane Arbus It's simple: every time I look at Diane Arbus's photographs taken at residences for the mentally retarded, I cry. The subjects, mainly women, seem to be bound together on their way to special occasions. They wear costumes over their hospital gowns. They wear masks to hide their faces.  They have no artifice, no calculation. The roads these tenuous heartbreakers travel seem to be leading them slowly, surely, and ever so faithfully into that big question mark... the great unknown. Arbus tells us, with the mastery of her vision, that we're not so different from the unfortunate ladies in dress-up, laughing and holding one another as they parade by with the invisible word hope penciled underneath their fake mustaches. Diane Keaton****[O, the Oprah Magazine, April 2001] Keaton is editor of the book: Local News: Tabloid Pictures from the Los Angeles Herald Express 1936 - 1961

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Women Photographers edited by Constance Sullivan This book of extraordinary scope and richness showcases the contribution women have made to photography. When you look at their work, I hope you feel as I do -- proud to be a woman.  Among the 73 artists represented are Lisette Model, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Helen Levitt, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Lynne Cohen, Laurie Simmons and Consuelo Kanaga, to name a few. They provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours.  We live in a culture in which this decision is undermined by the notion that the single most valuable contribution a woman can make is to be visually attractive. Women Photographers makes a strong case for seeing and an even stronger case for recording what you see. Diane Keaton****[O, the Oprah Magazine, April 2001]

Hand Studies - Self-portrait, 1932  by Alma Lavenson [1897 - 1989]

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Visionaire 36: Power: Limited Edition  by Peter Saville, Inez Van Lamsweerde "Contributions from Visionaire's usual all-star list of artists, photographers, and image-makers include Mariko Mori, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Struth, Roni Horn, Mark Quinn, Richard Misrach, Nick Knight, Richard Burbridge, Warren du Preez, Nick Thornton-Jones, Fabien Baron, Peter Saville and Me Company. The cover features an image of the singer and actress Bjork, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Includes works by Mariko Mori, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Struth, Roni Horn, Mark Quinn, Richard Misrach, Nick Knight, Richard Burbridge, Waren du Preez, Nick Thornton-Jones, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Fabien Baron, Peter Saville, Me Company. Limited Edition of 6,000 numbered copies. An irredescent injected-molded case houses hardcover book."   [Amazon.com review]

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_ __Cindy Sherman : Retrospective by Cindy Sherman     < Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Still #15 [1978]

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Edward Weston: A Legacy by Jonathan Spaulding, et al

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.................................... Herb Ritts: Work Herb Ritts [1952-2002] "tapped into a certain changeover in celebrity -- from an unattainable glamour or theatrical veneer to sensuality... Ritts actually defined that changeover, and that made his subjects more accessible... he spawned a whole new generation of celebrity and art photography." Tim B. Wride, associate curator of photography, LA County Museum of Art[LA Times, Dec 28 2002]    photos from book: Jack Nicholson, Louise Bourgeois, Bill T. Jones

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**mmore books :
 

Vision: 50 Years of British Creativity - A Celebration of Art, Architecture and Design by Melvyn Bragg

Secret Knowledge : Retracing 6 Centuries of Western Art by David Hockney
 

Ansel Adams.  Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

Diane Arbus. Untitled

Doon Arbus. Diane Arbus Revelations

Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher, Malidoma Patrice Some. African Ceremonies    "We never take photographs until we make strong contact with people. We take our time, eat with them, chat, share their lives. We usually try to learn at least 50 words of their language. The best photographs came on the second or third visit, when you feel like one of them." Carol Beckwith [She and partner Angela Fisher were given the United Nations Award for Writers and Artists for their book]

Jayne Hinds Bidaut. Tintypes
"An imaginative photographer revives the lost art of tintype by employing it in two extensive studies: one of rare and exotic insects, the other of gracefully posed and draped female nudes."

Jennifer Blessing et al.  Rrose Is a Rrose Is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography
[Ingram review:] "Films with cross-dressed protagonists and advertisements featuring androgynous adolescents are just some of the evidence of the contemporary fascination with gender and sexuality. This book provides an art-historical perspective on photography that explores and plays with this controversial, sexy subject. 144 color photos."

Frances Borzello. Seeing Ourselves : Women's Self-Portraits
"...self-portraits across eight centuries, deftly weaving together art and social history, the biographies of many women artists, and a wide selection of paintings, prints, and photographs by women."

Judy Dater.  Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait

Judith Fryer Davidov.  Women's Camera Work

William Eggleston. William Eggleston's Guide

Christopher Felver.  The Importance of Being
Some of the best specimens of the human animal show up in "The Importance Of Being" ... And by this I do not mean the "beautiful people" but the accomplished ones - writers, artists, musicians, activists. No pretense here, just straight-ahead, black-and-white portraits of a staggering 436 "creative revolutionaries," as Mr. Felver calls them, photographed by him over the past two decades. He presents here an incredible collection of the most creative spirits of our times and it is fascinating to see the immediacy with which the subjects posed for this bohemian photographer.
Wall Street Journal Review of November 30, 2001

Alice Rose George. 25 And Under : Photographers [Library Journal:]  ".. collection of work by 25 young photographers... "

Pamela Hanson (Photographer), Susan Minot (Introduction). Girls
'..American photographer Pamela Hanson.. captures their subtle mix of innocence and seduction, awareness and insolence - the make-up of today's younger generation. To accompany the photographs, writers, designers, singers, actors, journalists and movie directors give their definition of what "girls" represent for them today. It includes, among many others, quotes by Fabien Baron, Kate Betts, Manolo Blahnik, Griffin Dunne, Arthur Elgort, Richard Gere, Donna Karan, Kelly Klein, Heidi Klum, Carey Lowell, Polly Mellen, Susan Minot, Julianne Moore, Peter Morton, Paloma Picasso, Oscar de la Renta, Mario Testino, Christy Turlington, Amber Valletta, and Yohji Yamamoto.'

Nancy Heller. Women Artists
"Beginning with sixteenth-century Sofonisba Anguissola, the first woman artist to establish an international reputation, here are professional painters and sculptors who developed their skills and talents, despite having limited access to education and few opportunities to exhibit. You may not have heard of many of them, but they were often well known during their lifetimes. Lady Elizabeth Butler painted monumental battle scenes that won her both fame and fortune. When Queen Victoria had a public showing of one of Butler’s works at Buckingham Palace, she had to hire extra policemen to control the overwhelming crowds. Women Artists also includes contemporary artists like Kiki Smith, African-American Carrie Mae Weems, and Laurie Anderson. There are photographs of many of the artists, as well as full-color reproductions of their work." [review by girlscando.com]

Christopher Hitchens. Vanity Fair's Hollywood

Marin Hopper. 1712 North Crescent Heights: Dennis Hopper Photographs 1962-1968
Brooke Hayward gave Dennis Hopper a camera in 1962, shortly after the birth of their daughter Marin, and it was with this gift that he documented all that went on in and around his eclectic, bohemian home. He photographed family and friends like Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim, artists like Jasper Johns, musicians like Ronnie Specter and Ike and Tina Turner, the early fashions of Rudi Gernreich, and on
and on and on. [The book], edited by Marin Hopper, designed by Dimitri Levas and including a conversation between Marin, Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper, is an intimate collection of never-before-seen photographs from this vibrant and uniquely personal time. A subtle glimpse into a brief but tantamount time in their lives. A time that would forever be lost with the arrival of "Easy Rider."  [publisher summary]

Elizabeth Janus. Veronica's Revenge : Contemporary Perspectives on Photography

Drew Heath Johnson.  Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 to the Present '... not merely a coffee-table book. Rather, Johnson presents a smart and provocative selection of photographs -- "a 'greatest hits' approach," as he readily concedes--and then places each one in context with a series of illuminating essays. Thus, for example, we are given a couple of nude studies by Anne Brigman dating to the turn of the 20th century--female figures in sensual and eerie poses in strangely beautiful outdoor settings--and an essay by Naomi Rosenblum that helps us to understand what brought the photographer to California in the first place and what she intended to bring to her work.' [from review article by Jonathan Kirsch, LA Times 3.21.01]

Douglas Kirkland  Icons : Creativity With Camera and Computer

Nick Knight.  Flora
It was celebrated by the press as the most beautiful book of the year when it was first published in 1996. Nick Knight, the.. fashion and commercial photographer, captured the magic, filigree beauty of the up to 300-year-old pressed plant specimens of the British Natural History Museum in these subtle and opulently printed photographic illustrations. [publisher review]

Antonin Kratochvil: Incognito**Introduction by Billy Bob Thornton
Kratochvil has previously stated, "I do portraits, I think, in the tradition of great journalists like Cartier-Bresson, or Kertesz. I'm just continuing the tradition in my own particular way - of great journalists who as part of their job photographed artists, writers, actors. Today they call them celebrities; before they were just actors. I get inspired by the humanity of those I portray. I don't get inspired by other photographers." Among those who have inspired Kratochvil to do some of his best work are Liv Tyler, David Bowie, Willem Dafoe, Jean Reno, Billy Bob Thornton, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peggy Cohen, Rob Morrow, Jessica Lang, Bob Dylan, and Patricia Arquette.[from publisher site: Arena Editions]

Ulrich Lehmann et al.  Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography
"... some 40 photographers present both their free work and their published editorials from fashion magazines and advertising campaigns. Photographers well-known for their commercial work offer personal and exploratory prints; those who gained prominence in the fine arts display work they were subsequently hired to do for fashion companies and magazines. Accompanying essays approach fashion photography from various perspectives, from that of cutting-edge fashion magazines to the field of contemporary art photography. The photographers: Fred Aufray, Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Jean-Francois Carly, Donald Christie, Philippe Cometti, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Corinne Day, Horst Diekgerdes, Nathaniel Goldberg, Alexei Haye, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Tom Lignau & Frank Schuhmacher, Richard Prince, Blaise Reutersward, Cindy Sherman, David Sims, Mario Sorrenti, Hannah Starkey, Larry Sultan, Ike Ude, Erwin Wurm, and others

Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey

Sandra Matthews, Laura Wexler. Pregnant Pictures

Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney. Light From Within: Photojournals

Diane Neumaier. Reframings : New American Feminist Photographies

Freeman Patterson  Photographing the World Around You: A Visual Design Workshop

[reader:] "'ve been around photography as an amateur and enthusiast for 20 years. Over that period of time, my interests have run the gamut from understanding the mechanics, to point&click, to just recording memories. I've read many books on photography and most of them concentrated on the technical details of the process while others described the author's exploits or supposedly instructed you on how to sell your photos. This is the first book that I've read on how to see. Patterson's approach to discussing the art of photography is refreshing and very helpful. His beautiful photographs not only please the eye, but are chosen to explain the concepts he writes about. His writing is engaging, instructional, and understandable."

Maria Piscopo. The Photographer's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion

Lyle Rexer. Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes

[Library Journal:]  Some fear that the photographic community's widespread and controversial adoption of digital processes will lead to technical standardization and numbing artistic uniformity. Fortunately, whatever the future of photography, we can all be grateful for the artists, such as those covered in this book, who are investigating and exploiting its past. This is a stunning survey of current work by inventive artists employing pre-20th century means to address postmodern and contemporary issues and aesthetics.

The 60 artists, including Sally Mann and Chuck Close, utilize an array of processes (e.g., wet-plate photography) and applications (e.g., emulsion on steel) to create images that are dependent on light and time and that, as Mann states, "cost you dearly in time and energy." The 120 images include luscious cyanotype prints on various materials, enduring daguerreotypes, dreamy ambrotype prints, and eerie tintypes. An informative and accessible text by photography writer Rexer gives historic and theoretical perspective, and the brief technical glossary serves as a primer for the novice. Highly recommended for large academic and public collections, this is also an affordable resource for smaller libraries.

Naomi Rosenblum. A History of Women Photographers

Naomi Rosenblum. A World History of Photography

Thomas Ruff. Thomas Ruff Nudes

Lise Sarfati. Acta Est
[publisher:] 'This is the first book by the emerging photographer-artist Lise Sarfati. Composed of images made during extended visits to Russia during the 1990s. ... Sarfati uses descriptions of the details of the Russian environments which fascinate her to create a visual drama - a personal theatre of dysfunction and deterioration, of change and beauty. The title - literally "it (feminine) is over" from the Latin phrase "Acta Est Fabula" meaning "the play is over" - signals her insistence that the work not be read as journalism but as a work of theatrical imagination. She builds a disturbing Tarkovsky-esque world out of concrete historical fragments - for example the architecture and factories of Norilsk, a town in arctic Siberia built and occupied by political convicts - and peoples it with lost characters - young transvestites and teenage runaways interned in "re-education" camps. What results is a body of beautiful, engaging and disturbing photographs which are both a historical record of Russia at the end of an era, and the poetry of a visual artist conjuring her own world.'

Lothar Schirmer. Women Seeing Women: From the Early Days of Photography to the Present
"On each of these faces is a life vividly lived. That is what connects the photographs - the subtle proof that beauty is a cumulative process, an ability to refine experience into expression. The steepled fingers, the exposed breast, the arched back, the sideways glance, the broad and brilliant brow have nothing to do with any shifting social standard, and all defy attempts to mimic a beauty ideal. These faces and figures are a distillation of the years that led up to an hour or so before the camera. That the images are of women, and by women, may or may not be telling, but certainly as a group they are an important gift for women. In an age when many are doing much to erase the fingerprints of age, the "imperfections" of face and figure, "Women Seeing Women" is, if nothing else, a tangible reminder that it is the imprint of time that makes us who we are, that gives us whatever loveliness we possess." .. [from review by Mary McNamara, LA Times 6.22.03]

Cindy Sherman : Retrospective  by Cindy Sherman

Floria Sigismondi.  Redemption
"A lot of my images come from that time when you just go to sleep, and I usually end up writing in the dark or just when I wake up," Sigismondi told MTV News. ... "People think of women I guess doing softer more beautiful pink things... I've just got a little bit of that other side," Sigismondi said.  [MTV News interview]

Leslie Sills, et al.  In Real Life : Six Women Photographers

Constance Sullivan.  Women Photographers

Wim Wenders: Once
"Prefaced by Wenders' poetic meditations on the metaphysics of photography and film, 'Once' consists of short, autobiographical sketches relating Wenders' experiences - both meaningful and apparently trivial - on his trips across the world scouting locations for his films, as well as photographs taken during these excursions."    [Amazon.com review]

Thomas Weski, Emma Dexter. Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th Century Photograph
A critic once described the work of American photographer Walker Evans as "tender cruelty." That tension between engagement and estrangement lies at the heart of many of the photographs featured in this provocative new book, from August Sander's remarkable study of German people at the beginning of the century to Philip-Lorca diCorcia's revealing city street scenes. Among the other photographers whose work is featured are Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Rineka Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Andreas Gursky, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Garry Winogrand. ... more than 200 photographs by the century's most important realist photographers, together with insightful essays and biographies of the photographers featured.
Emma Dexter is senior curator at Tate Modern. Thomas Weski is chief curator
at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. [amazon.com summary]

Annabel Williams. Professional Portraiture

Gilda Williams et al. Art From the UK: Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas
Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whitread

Deborah Willis.  Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present "This fabulous book deserves all of the praise it has earned. In addition the final chapter, "Photography of the 1980s and 1990s," includes an amazing section of modern art photgraphy, unmatched in any other photography collection in print today. Astonishing and utterly original works of young African American photographers Albert Chong, Pat Ward Williams, Chris Johnson, Terry Boddie, and Calvin Hicks are just a few highlights. In addition, Ms. Willis, a MacArthur Fellow, brings a clear, assured, and scholarly voice to her narration of this wonderful collection." [reader review]

Sylvia Wolf. Focus : Five Women Photographers : Julia Margaret Cameron/Margaret Bourke-White/Flor Garduno/Sandy Skoglund/Lorna Simpson

Sylvia Wolf et al.  Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
 

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