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

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