Women Photograph: What We See
Various Artists
White Lion Publishing
English
Curated by Daniella Zalcman and Sara Ickow.
Hardcover
224 pages
170 x 230 mm
2023
ISBN 9780711278547
Open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and non-binary photojournalists’ stories from behind the lens.
85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is reported in the world is seen through men’s eyes. Similarly, spaces and communities men don’t have access to are left undocumented and forgotten. With the camera limited to the hands of one gender, photographic ‘truth’ is more subjective than it seems. To answer this serious ethical problem, Women Photograph flips that bias on its head to show what and how women and nonbinary photojournalists see.
From documenting major events such as 9/11 to capturing unseen and misrepresented communities, this book presents a revisionist contemporary history: pore over 50 years of women’s dispatches in 100 photographs. Each image is accompanied by 200 words from the photographer about the experience and the subject, offering fresh insights and a much-needed perspective.
Until we have balanced, representative reporting, the camera cannot offer a mirror to our global society. To get the full picture, we need a diverse range of people behind the lens. This book offers a first step.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/women-photograph-what-we-see-1?_pos=1&_sid=c63780124&_ss=r)
About the Curators
Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans, LA. She is a Catchlight Fellow, a multiple grantee of the National Geographic Society and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph, a nonprofit working to elevate the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists.
dan.iella.net
(source: https://www.dan.iella.net/about)
Sara Ickow is the Senior Manager, Exhibitions and Collections at the International Center of Photography. Previously, she worked as a Curatorial Assistant and Collections Manager with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in their Department of Photographs and as a freelance collections manager. She holds an MA in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she studied photography and time-based media art and wrote her thesis on Walker Evans in the 1930s.
(source: https://books.google.ie/books/about/Women_Photograph_What_We_See.)
About the Publisher
White Lion Publishing publishes illustrated books across several core nonfiction categories, including travel, food and drink, issues and activism, self-care, lifestyle, and popular culture.
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(source: https://www.quarto.com/White-Lion-Publishing)
