Research Catalog

Title

Women war photographers : from Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus / editors and editing Anne-Marie Beckmann, Felicity Korn.

Publication

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beckmann, Anne-Marie, 1971-
• Korn, Felicity
• Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf, Germany), host institution.
• Fotomuseum Winterthur, host institution.

Description

223 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Women have been on the front lines of war for more than a century. With access to places men cannot go, the women who photograph war lend a unique perspective to the consequences of conflict. From intimate glimpses of daily life to the atrocities of war, this exhibition catalog reveals the range and depth of eight women photographers' contributions to wartime photojournalism. Each photographer is introduced by a brief, informative essay followed by reproductions of a selection of their works. Included here are images by Lee Miller, who documented the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald. The first woman journalist to parachute into Vietnam, Catherine Leroy was on the ground during the Tet Offensive. Susan Meiselas raised international awareness around the Somoza regime's catastrophic effects in Nicaragua. German reporter Anja Niedringhaus worked on assignment in nearly every major conflict of the 1990s, from the Balkans to Libya, Iraq to Afghanistan. The work of Carolyn Cole, Françoise Demulder, Christine Spengler, and Gerda Taro round out this collective profile of courage under pressure and of humanity in the face of war.

Subjects

• Women photographers
• Women photographers > Exhibitions
• PHOTOGRAPHY / General
• Women and war > Exhibitions
• War photography > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of exhibition at the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, March 8-June 10, 2019 and at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, February 29-May 17, 2020.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQF 20-43

ISBN

• 9783791358680
• 3791358685

OCLC

1091644984

Title

Women war photographers : from Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus / editors and editing Anne-Marie Beckmann, Felicity Korn.

Publisher

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Beckmann, Anne-Marie, 1971- editor.

Korn, Felicity, editor.

Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf, Germany), host institution.

Fotomuseum Winterthur, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 20-43