women photographers

As a child, Anna loved to collect plants and insects with her scientist father. As an adult, she became a botanist, and in 1843, published the first book of photographs---cyanotype prints of her vast seaweed collection.

Over the course of several recorded conversations, Andrea Bowers and Catherine Opie reveal the many similarities in their backgrounds and discuss ideas concerning documentary methodologies and community based work. The conversation spans many of the topics they regard central to their practices and responsibilities as artists, from memories and community, to activism, documentary, feminism, war, and environmentalism.

The author tells her family's history in photographs and text, after sorting through a box of old papers that revealed scandals, alcohol and domestic abuse, affairs, family land ownership, and racial complications.

"Before she raised her lens to take her most iconic photo, Dorothea Lange took photos of the downtrodden from bankers in once-fine suits waiting in breadlines, to former slaves, to the homeless sleeping on sidewalks. A case of polio had left her with a limp and sympathetic to those less fortunate. Traveling across the United States, documenting with her camera and her fieldbook those most affected by the stock market crash, she found the face of the Great Depression."--Provided by publisher.

Twenty-eight-year-old Maibelle returns to her home in New York's Chinatown searching for her identity and hoping to unravel the mystery behind family lies.

Offers insight into the life of twentieth-century photographer Imogen, looking at her father's impact on her career, her role as a mother of three boys, and her photographs of plants and flowers.

"A collection of... photographs by award-winning photographer Melissa Ann Pinney that contemplate the essenceof duality in our relationships and in the world that surrounds us"--Provided by publisher.

The autobiography of American photographer Sally Mann.

A collection of photographic assignment work from women photographers.

Presents the work of twelve women photographers from Iran and the Arab world.