Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography
by Justin Spring (Rizzoli New York, New York City), $50.
Sure, Dorothea Lange and Berenice Abbott are household names, but the accomplishments of other early women photographers--such as Catherine Barnes Ward and Lotte Jacobi--go largely unnoticed, according to author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Martin W. Sandler. This title strives to rectify this omission by capturing the lives and works of 30 groundbreaking women photographers, focusing on not only luminaries such as Imogen Cunningham and Consuelo Kanaga, but also lesser-known figures such as Toni Frissell, a World War II photographer who produced the print that became Winston Churchill's official portrait. What develops is a more complete history of the medium of photography.
Sure, Dorothea Lange and Berenice Abbott are household names, but the accomplishments of other early women photographers--such as Catherine Barnes Ward and Lotte Jacobi--go largely unnoticed, according to author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Martin W. Sandler. This title strives to rectify this omission by capturing the lives and works of 30 groundbreaking women photographers, focusing on not only luminaries such as Imogen Cunningham and Consuelo Kanaga, but also lesser-known figures such as Toni Frissell, a World War II photographer who produced the print that became Winston Churchill's official portrait. What develops is a more complete history of the medium of photography.
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