Emma Lewis is Assistant Curator, International Art, Tate Modern. Since joining the museum in 2013 she has organized or co-organized numerous exhibitions and permanent collection displays, most recently Dora Maar (2019), Portraits and Community (2019) and Wolfgang Tillmans (2017). She is responsible for researching photography acquisitions for the permanent collection, with a specialist focus on women’s histories and feminist practices. Emma regularly contributes to exhibition catalogues and artist monographs, sits on panels for organizations including Sony, Magnum Photos and British Journal of Photography, and has appeared on BBC’s Start the Week and The Listening Service. Her first book Isms: Understanding Photography was published in 2017.

Emma Jones is a writer specializing in art writing and non-fiction. She is Curatorial Assistant (Photography) at Tate. Curatorial credits include Ernest Cole (2021), Dora Maar (2019), Graciela Iturbide (2019) and Shape of Light: Photography and Abstract Art (2018). Emma holds an MA in Writing from Royal Holloway, London. Her contributions to the artist profiles in this book are indicated with her initials.

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Notes on the text

For the transliteration of Asian names, the author has followed the convention of family name before given name, except where the artist uses the Western convention of given name before family name.

Artwork titles are capitalized according to the preferences of the artist or their estate.

CONTENTS

Introduction:

Whose Stories Are We Telling?

Timeline

1 In and Out of the Studio:

Early Professionals and Amateurs

Bolette Berg & Marie Høeg

Julia Margaret Cameron

Florestine Collins

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Gertrude Käsebier

Hannah Maynard

Maryam Şahinyan

2 Avant-gardes:

Modernity and the ‘New Woman’

Aenne Biermann

Imogen Cunningham

Hannah Höch

Dora Maar

Tina Modotti

Lucia Moholy

Varvara Stepanova

Wanda Wulz

3 On the Street:

Documentary and Reportage in the ‘Golden Age’ and Beyond

Margaret Bourke-White

Kati Horna

Dorothea Lange

Lee Miller

Gerda Taro

Homai Vyarawalla

Elizabeth ‘Tex’ Williams

4 Communities:

Portraits of Private and Social Lives

Paz Errázuriz

Graciela Iturbide

Susan Meiselas

Tish Murtha

Zofia Rydet

Ketaki Sheth

Tokiwa Toyoko

Zubeida Vallie

5 Performing Femininity:

The Body, the Camera and the Gaze

Renee Cox

VALIE EXPORT

Rosy Martin & Kay Goodridge

Shirin Neshat

Ewa Partum

Martha Rosler

Cindy Sherman

Carrie Mae Weems

6 Activism:

Consciousness-Raising and Agitating for Change

Laia Abril

Poulomi Basu

Sheila Pree Bright

Sheba Chhachhi

Doris Derby

Donna Ferrato

Zanele Muholi

Sue Williamson

7 Being Seen:

(In)Visibility and Representation

Laura Aguilar

JEB (Joan E. Biren)

Nydia Blas

Elina Brotherus

Rineke Dijkstra

Nan Goldin

Elle Pérez

Jo Spence

8 Changing Landscapes:

Myth, Memory and the Climate Emergency

Felicity Hammond

Mame-Diarra Niang

Sophie Ristelhueber

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

Lieko Shiga

Sim Chi Yin

Catherine Wagner

9 Herstories:

The Family Album and the Photographic Archive

Maria Kapajeva

Lebohang Kganye

Amak Mahmoodian

Pushpamala N.

Lorna Simpson

Maud Sulter

Carmen Winant

10 Networked Bodies:

Social Photos and Online Spaces

Arvida Byström

Sara Cwynar

Mari Katayama

Haley Morris-Cafiero

Tabita Rezaire

Sheida Soleimani

Amalia Ulman

Notes

Bibliography

Picture Credits

Acknowledgements

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