Today is International Women's Day, a day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This year’s campaign is #ChooseToChallenge.
A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change. So let's all choose to challenge. How will you help forge a gender equal world? Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.
We celebrate and share a new publication The New Woman Behind the Camera, which “explores how women emerged as a driving force in modern photography from the 1920s to the 1950s, bringing their own perspectives to artistic experimentation, studio portraiture, fashion and advertising work, scenes of urban life, ethnography, and photojournalism”.
This “groundbreaking, richly illustrated book" features over one hundred photographers from around the world, many who are widely recognized but also less well-known women photographers such as Louise Barbour Davis and Toshiko Okanoue.
In the introduction curator Andrea Nelson writes, “During this extraordinary era, gender and modernity played out in innumerable ways in the lives of women and the photographs they made…the aim is to generate new conversations about a global phenomenon that has pressing implications not just for the history of photography but also for the continual struggle of women to gain creative agency and self-representation”.
This publication accompanies the exhibition The New Woman Behind the Camera, which is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is scheduled to be on view at both institutions in 2021.
