{"id":1547,"date":"2009-07-19T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:44:26","slug":"women-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/07\/19\/women-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A questionable categorization<\/i><\/p>\n

I came across a book named ‘Women Photographers’ the other day and couldn’t but wonder at the arrogance of the title. To in some way suggest that gender distinction was worthy of a book simply raised my hackles. A good photograph is just that. A good photograph. To try to ladle distinction on a subset of the species just because it happens to include pictures made solely by women seems specious.<\/p>\n

But it did get me thinking, I confess. Click on ‘Photography Books’ below and you will see what’s currently in my library. I see monographs on Barbara Morgan, Germaine Krull, Joyce Tenneson, Imogen Cunningham, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Mary Ellen Mark, Regina Relang and Tina Modotti. Yet not a one of these was bought because<\/i> the photographer was a woman. They were bought for the simple reason that the photography was special and unique. <\/p>\n

Strangely I seem not to have anything by Dorothea Lange, so here’s a reminder of what she did and a mental note to fix that omission at the earliest occasion.<\/p>\n


\nMigrant Mother. The most famous Depression era picture<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Lange snapped this in Nipomo, CA, just a few miles south of the old estate. Lange was a great photographer who just happened<\/i> to be a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A questionable categorization I came across a book named ‘Women Photographers’ the other day and couldn’t but wonder at the arrogance of the title. To in some way suggest that gender distinction was worthy of a book simply raised my hackles. A good photograph is just that. A good photograph. To try to ladle distinction … Continue reading Women Photographers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33610,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/33610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}