Abigail Heyman (August 1, 1942 – August 28, 2013) was an American photographer and feminist. Her 1974 book Growing Up Female became an important text for the feminist movement.
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Talia Chetrit: Showcaller (Mack, 2019)
Showcaller is the first monograph of New York-based artist Talia Chetrit (born 1982, Washington D.C.). Her work includes self-portraits, portraits of family members, lovers, and friends, nudes, still lifes, and cityscapes.
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Mao Ishikawa: Morika’s Dreams – A Port Town Elegy – Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa
Mao Ishikawa was born in 1953 in Ôgimi Village, in the northern part of Okinawa. She started her photography career in a workshop guided by the famous Japanese photographer Tômatsu Shômei, in Tokyo in 1973.
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Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol. 1 and 2 (Nieves Books, 2005/7)
Kim Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist, and actress. She rose to prominence as a bassist, guitarist, and vocalist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (1981-2011).
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Hannelore Fischer (Edit.): Eva Besnyö: – Photographin Budapest, Berlin, Amsterdam (Wienand Verlag, 2018)
The lifework of the Hungarian-Jewish photographer Eva Besnyö spans more than six decades. Following training in the Budapest photographic studio of József Pésci, she resettled in Berlin in 1930 and, inspired by ‘Neues Sehen’, swiftly mastered the aesthetic language of modernist photography. She experienced her artistic breakthrough in Amsterdam in 1933.
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Russet Lederman, Olga Yatskevich and Michael Lang (Editors): How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks, 2018)
10×10 Photobooks’ latest project presents 100 historically significant photobooks by women, as selected by female photography experts.
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Wally Elenbaas & Esther Hartog: Photos (nai010, 2015)
This is the first photographic survey of Rotterdam artist Wally Elenbaas (1912–2008) and his great love Esther (‘Es’) Hartog (1905– 1998).
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Richard Prince: 4×4 (powerHouse Books, 1999)
Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. Richard Prince: 4×4; edited by Richard Prince and Taka Kawachi; paperback; 7.75 x 11.75 inches; 108 pages; 80 four-color photographs.
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Christer Strömholm: Poste Restante (Art And Theory Publishing, 2016)
Poste Restante was the first photobook by legendary Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm. Published in 1967 by Norstedts, the book included 96 images and a series of text fragments and anecdotes based on an interview with the photographer.
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Walter Pfeiffer: Cherchez la femme! (Edition Patrick Frey, 2007)
Gathering more than 100 portraits of women by Walter Pfeiffer, most of them being published for the first time, this books shows a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer’s rich oeuvre.
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Jitka Hanzlová: Female (Schirmer/Mosel, 2000)
This series of photographs by the Czech artist Jitka Hanzlová (1958)is a compilation of approximately 50 portraits of women of various ages. The series was created between 1997 and 2000 and shows a multifaceted portrait of contemporary female identity.
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