Research Catalog

Title

Our selves : photographs by women artists from, Helen Kornblum / Roxana Marcoci [editor, organizer].

Author

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), creator, host institution. https://isni.org/isni/0000000123082510

Publication

• New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2022.
• New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK / D A P.
• Madrid : Printing ... by Brizzolis, S.A.
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

• Marcoci, Roxana
• Kornblum, Helen
• Halbreich, Kathy
• Lowry, Glenn D.
• Ostrander, Dana
• Ryan, Caitlin (Caitlin Elizabeth)
• Taylor, Phil (Art historian)

Description

152 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 28 cm

Summary

• "Our Selves" affirms the creative and political agency of women artists. A critical essay by curator Roxana Marcoci reconsiders the art-historical canon through works by Claude Cahun, Tina Modotti, Carrie Mae Weems, Catherine Opie, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, among others. Twelve focused essays by emerging scholars explore themes such as identity and gender, the relationship between educational systems and power, and the ways in which women artists have reframed our received ideas about womanhood. This catalog features more than 100 color and black-and-white plates. As twenty-first century society continues to aspire to expanded equity and diversity, "Our Selves" offers perspectives on the contributions of women, previously too often relegated to the margins of our cultural imagination.
• "How have women artists used photography as a progressive medium? As a tool of resistance? As a way of unsettling conventions? 'Our selves' spans more than one hundred years of photography, from a turn-of-the-century photograph of racially segregated education in the United States, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, to a contemporary portrait celebrating Indigenous art forms, by the Chemehuevi artist Cara Romero. By looking at the intersections of photography with feminism, civil rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and queer liberation, 'Our selves' contributes vital insights into figures too often excluded from our current cultural narratives."--Back cover.
• Spanning more than 100 years of photography, the works in Our Selves range from a turn-of-the-century photograph of racially segregated education in the United States, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, to a contemporary portrait celebrating Indigenous art forms, by the Chemehuevi artist Cara Romero. As the title of this volume suggests, Our Selves affirms the creative and political agency of women artists. A critical essay by curator Roxana Marcoci asks the question, "What is a Feminist Picture?" and reconsiders the art-historical canon through works by Claude Cahun, Tina Modotti, Carrie Mae Weems, Catherine Opie and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, among others. Twelve focused essays by emerging scholars explore themes such as identity and gender, the relationship between educational systems and power, and the ways in which women artists have reframed our received ideas about womanhood. Published in conjunction with a groundbreaking exhibition of photographs by women artists drawn exclusively from MoMA's collection, thanks to a transformative gift of photographs from Helen Kornblum in 2021, this richly illustrated catalog features more than 100 color and black-and-white plates. As we continue to aspire to equity and diversity, Our Selves contributes vital insights into figures too often relegated to the margins of our cultural imagination. Exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (16.04.-02.10.2022).

Subject

• Kornblum, Helen > Photograph collections > Exhibitions
• Kornblum, Helen
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) > Exhibitions
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Photograph collections > New York > Exhibitions
• Women photographers > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Collections de photographies > New York > Expositions
• Femmes photographes > Expositions
• Photographie artistique > Expositions
• Photograph collections
• Photography, Artistic
• Women photographers
• PHOTOGRAPHY / General
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "... this catalogue, edited by ... Roxana Marcoci to celebrate Helen Kornblum's gift of one hundred photographs ..."--Page 11.
• Accompanies the exhibition "Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 16-October 2, 2022.
• "... exhibition ... organized by Roxana Marcoci ... with Dana Ostrander and Caitlin Ryan ..." Catalogue "edited by Emily Hall."--Page 151.
• Illustrated endpapers.
• Includes work by: "Lola Álvarez Bravo, Gertrud Arndt, Uta Barth, Jessie Tarbox Beals, Ruth Bernhard, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Esther Bubley, Claude Cahun, Sophie Calle, Nancy Ford Cones, Marie Cosindas, Eileen Cowin, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Nell Dorr, Jeanne Dunning, Barbara Ess, Flor Garduño, Laura Gilpin, Sandra Haber, Florence Henri, Candida Höfer, Kati Horna, Graciela Iturbide, Lotte Jacobi, Bertha Evelyn Jaques, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Consuelo Kanaga, Gertrude Käsebier, Silvia Kolbowski, Germaine Krull, Justine Kurland, Dorothea Lange, Alma Lavenson, Louise Lawler, Sharon Lockhart, Dora Maar, Mary Ellen Mark, Margrethe Mather, Susan Meiselas, Ana Mendieta, Tina Modotti, Tracey Moffatt, Lucia Moholy, Inge Morath, Barbara Morgan, Nelly, Anne Noggle, Barbara Norfleet, Sonya Noskowiak, Lorie Novak, Catherine Opie, Ruth Orkin, Tatiana Parcero, Marta María Pérez Bravo Barbara Probst, Josephine Pryde, Jane Reece, Ursula Johanna Richter, ringl + pit, Cara Romero, Amanda Ross-Ho, Alison Rossiter, Meridel Rubenstein, Charlotte Rudolph, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Clara E. Sipprell, Rosemarie Trockel, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Margaret Watkins, Carrie Mae Weems, Marion Post Wolcott, Mariana Yampolsky, Yva."--Back cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 136-145) and index.

Contents

(From table of contents) Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- With heartfelt appreciation / Helen Kornblum -- A few words for two friends / Kathy Halbreich -- What is a feminist picture? / Roxana Marcoci -- (Plates / Dana Ostrander, Caitlin Ryan, Phil Taylor). Youth and pedagogy / DO -- From mask to metonym / PT -- Movement in picture form / CR -- Visual ecologies / CR -- Mannequins and mirrors / PT -- The social archive / CR -- Documentary portraits / DO -- Indigeneity and colonial encounters / DO -- Performance as ethnography / CR -- Positioning identity / DO -- Threshold perceptions / PT -- Narrative and its limits / PT.

ISBN

• 9781633451339
• 163345133X

LCCN

• 2021948620
• 99991500109

OCLC

• on1308624103
• 1308624103
• SCSB-14257596

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries