Feminist Photography

Feminist Photography is an important thread within the history of photography. Photographic practices developed within the context of second-wave feminism from the late 1960s onward. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementFeminist Photography
Photographers2

Overview

Photographic practices developed within the context of second-wave feminism from the late 1960s onward.

Photographers

🇺🇸US1945–
Barbara Kruger
Pictures Generation
Pictures GenerationConceptual+1

Barbara Kruger turned the visual language of magazines and advertising back against itself.

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🇺🇸US1954–
Cindy Sherman
Postmodern Photography
Pictures GenerationConceptual+1

Born in New Jersey in 1954, Cindy Sherman made her Untitled Film Stills between 1977 and 1980, a series of sixty-nine black-and-white photographs that seem to belong to 1950s and 1960s Hollywood movies, film noir, and European art cinema.

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