Past Exhibition

The New Woman Behind the Camera

Details

  • Dates

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  • Locations

    West Building, Ground Floor, West Outer Tier

The iconic New Woman—modern, independent, stylish, creative, and confident—was a revolutionary model for women across the globe. Featuring more than 120 international photographers, The New Woman Behind the Camera explores the diverse “new women” who embraced photography as a mode of professional and personal expression from the 1920s to the 1950s. This groundbreaking exhibition will reveal the significant impact women have had on the history of modern photography.
 

Selected Works

ringl + pit, Grete Stern, Ellen Auerbach, Die Ringlpitis, 1931, bound volume of 6 photographs, 12 collages, 8 watercolors, 6 texts, and 1 drawing, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2017.141.1
Yvonne Chevalier, Nu (Nude), 1929, gelatin silver print, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2017.62.1
Lillian Bassman, Translucent Hat, c. 1950, gelatin silver print, Renee Harbers Liddell Fund and Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2020.1.1
Frances McLaughlin-Gill, Untitled, 1946, gelatin silver print, R. K. Mellon Family Foundation, 2018.152.1

Organization
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The exhibition is curated by Andrea Nelson, associate curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art.

Other venues
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 2–October 3, 2021

Sponsors
The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation has provided major support for this exhibition. The Trellis Fund also kindly provided a leadership gift.

Additional funding is provided by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art and the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.

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