Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. xv, 521 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. A near-fine copy of the first printing. An excellent anthology. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Introduction; On the Daguerreotype; A Lady Photographer who Never Photographs Men; Annals of My Glass House; Photography During the July Monarchy 1830-1898; The Camera Against the Paris Commune; Extending the Grand Tour; Tracing Nadar; Germany: The Weimar Republic; Photomontage; The Supremacy of the Message; Dada; A Hundred Years of Photography; I Worked with Man Ray; The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism; A Mutable Mirror: Claude Cahun; The Armed Vision Disarmed; Radical Formalism from Weapon to Style; Photography, 1914; Exhibitions and Commercial Work; In Pursuit of Perfection; Early Years; Life Begins; Looking at Life; The Assignment I'll Never Forget; A Crisis in the Intimate; One Time, One Place; The Photo League; Documentary Photography; The Politics of Photography; The Siege of St Malo; Star Wars: The Photographer as Polemicist in Vietnam; Photography at the Crossroads; What Shall We Tell the Children? Photography and Its Text (Books); Crowned with Thorns: Creative Camera 1965-1978; On Photography; What Becomes a Legend Most: The Short, Sad Career of Diane Arbus; Tina Modotti: Letters to Edward Weston; On Photography; Re-reading Edward Weston; Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis; Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light; Good Intentions; Witkin's Others; The Other Side; Time Exposure: The Photographs of Patrick Faigenbaum; Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House; Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism; Two Types of Photography Criticism Located in Relation to Lynn Silverman's Series; Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry into the Cultural Meanings of Landscape Photography; Dykes in Context: Some Problems in Minority Representation; Dialogue with Spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin; Between Frames; The Pleasure of the Phototext; Interview: Fetishism of Black-and-White and the Vulgarity of Colour; Partial Recall; The Unveiled: Algerian Women; Through Indian Eyes; Essential Differences, Photographs of Mexican Women; A Strategy of Appearances; The Australian Bicentenary; Showing Our Faces; A Century of Black Women Photographed; Gateway to a Labyrinth; Isak Dinesen and Photo/Graphic Recollection; Remembrance; Notes; Additional Notes on the Contributors; Copyrights and Permissions.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.