Category: Books & Publications

Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography – The Dodge & Burn Interviews By Qiana Mestrich

Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography is a powerful collection that celebrates and exhibits the talents of underrepresented artists. Focusing on fine art and documentary photography, this book provides a racially diverse and culturally inclusive version of photography history and its contemporary manifestations.

Who’s documenting the evolution of photography as it is happening now from an inclusive, Read More

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Collage: Women of the Prix Pictet Since 2008

The latest Prix Pictet book Collage features new and recent work by contemporary female photographers nominated and shortlisted for the prize since it first began in 2008.

Showcasing some of the finest photographers creating powerful imagery around the world today, Collage features images by 64 women photographers on the theme of sustainability.

Together the images address the Read More

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I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the lived experiences and perspectives of women in Japanese society.

Editors Pauline Vermare and Lesley A. Martin, curator and Read More

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BOP, Bristol

BOP – Books on Photography – is the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society, held in Bristol across the second weekend of October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events, street food, coffee and beer.

BOP 2024 will coincide with the Read More

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Artist Talk: Alinka Echeverría at The Photographers’ Gallery

Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist, working across moving image, photography and installation. With a background in anthropology, Echeverría challenges conventional narratives around identity and home, offering unique perspectives into a range of cultural contexts through the subjects represented.

In this talk, Echeverría will give background behind her latest projects and the wider political and social issues Read More

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Book Launch: Dorothy Bohm at 100 – A Life in Photography at The Photographers’ Gallery

This new book, published to mark the centenary of Bohm’s birth, showcases the diversity of her work and her profound empathy for the human condition. It contains texts by Monica Bohm-Duchen, Martin Barnes and Rachel Wallace with additional contributions from Maria Balshaw, Katy Barron, Colin Ford CBE, Anna Fox, Lydia Goldblatt, Mark Haworth-Booth, Amanda Hopkinson, Ian Read More

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Connoisseurs & Academies by Karen Knorr

Photographed with an analog camera over 19 years, Karen Knorr’s Connoisseurs & Academies series immerses us in the elaborate world of museums and stately homes, showcasing objects, paintings, connoisseurship, and academic structures. The use of animals as allegorical motifs, first introduced with a chimpanzee as the Genius of the Place, has become a hallmark of Read More

Behind the Scenes at F22

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the AOP f22 group, and launched on International Women’s Day 2024, the group have published diptychs by 30 of its members showing a photograph they have produced alongside a behind-the-scenes image of the photographer at work.

The AOP f22 group was first created in the 1980s and then re-formed in Read More

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Leipzig Photobook Festival

The third Leipzig Photobook Festival is dedicated to the topic of “Protest”. The topic will be researched from different perspectives in exhibitions of historical and contemporary books, a panel discussion and short presentations.

In addition, there will be panel discussions, presentations, exhibitions, book presentations, portfolio reviews, a speed dating event and a get-together.

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Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography

A new, revolutionary history of photography from a stellar team of writers and thinkers – Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler – that challenges all existing narratives by focusing on the complex collaborations between photographer and subject

Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of Read More

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Tales of Estrangement by Effie Paleologou

This collection evokes a mysterious and fragmented cityscape of two places – London and Athens – both of which artist Effie Paleologou has come to regard as almost home. Working nocturnally, when identities become blurred and indeterminate, Paleologou conjures a third fictional staging that she has become all the more attached to. Her images are Read More

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Linda Nochin Fanzines

Fifty years ago, in January 1971, Linda Nochlin’s essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? was published in the American journal ARTnews. Few art historians have been as influential, prolific, and radical as Nochlin. Between 1960 and 2017, she wrote seventeen books and numerous articles examining the social history of women in the arts Read More

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Women Street Photographers

Traditionally a male-dominated field, street photography is increasingly becoming the domain of women. This fantastic collection of images reflects that shift, showcasing 100 contemporary women street photographers working around the world today, accompanied by personal statements about their work. Variously joyful, unsettling and unexpected, the photographs capture a wide range of extraordinary moments. The volume Read More

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Photography and the Representations of Women During the Emergency in India 1975-1977 by Dr. Gemma Scott

Changing forms of representation are fundamental to our understanding of the history of democracy. The Emergency in India – as well as its visual traces – imposed by Indira Gandhi’s Congress Government from 1975 to 1977, is widely held as one of the most controversial moments in the political history of the subcontinent since Independence. Read More

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Book: 50 Feminist Art Manifestos by Katy Deepwell

50 Feminist Art Manifestos is an anthology of original texts, edited and introduced by Katy Deepwell

Available from January 2022

This anthology contains the original manifestos of 50 women artists/feminist groups/feminist protests. Introductory essay by Katy Deepwell, with notes on each manifesto.

What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief. Neither institutional Read More

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Photobook Becoming Sisters: Women Photography Collectives & Organizations

“Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations” is an impactful 286-page photobook by editors Aldeide Delgado and Ana Clara Silva that centers around collaborative practices in photography from a feminist perspective. Presented alongside the 2021 WOPHA Congress in Miami, this publication works as a registry and collective manifesto of 40 international women and non-binary collectives Read More

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What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999

Publisher: 10×10 Photobooks, NYC
Date of Publication: 2021
Editors: Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich
Associate Editors: Dolly Meieran and Jeff Gutterman

Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, the What They Saw anthology interprets historical photobooks by women in the broadest sense possible: classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books, zines and scrapbooks. Some of the books documented are well-known publications such as Read More

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‘Sexism Edu. Sexism in Danish Education and Research’: BOOK & WEBSITE

SEXISM AT DANISH UNIVERSITIES – THE ACADEMIC #METOO MOVEMENT

 

Friday October 2nd, 2020, a mail with an open invitation to sign the petition ’Sexism at Danish Universities’ went out from a group of 16 initiators to the entire Danish Academic sector.

The petition arose from a deep personal and professional desire to cast light on the prevalent Read More

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Check out Cafe Royal books

This is a wonderful publisher but out of nearly 40 books on the site only 2 are by a woman – the same woman

the wonderful Trish Porter

http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/?tx=4JG67517UH0031919&st=Completed&amt=9%2e45&cc=GBP&cm=&item_number=

I suggest we all try to get published here

Sara Davidmann – new book

KEN. TO BE DESTROYED. A new publication from Sara Davidmann

Edited by Val Williams

Published by Schilt, Amsterdam.

Ken.To be destroyed began with an archive and a discovery. Sara Davidmann and her siblings inherited letters and photographs belonging to their uncle and aunt, Ken and Hazel Houston, from their mother Audrey Davidmann. The letters Read More