cover design: Richard Eckersley
Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. From the Publisher:
Concern about how women are represented, despite varied and often conflicting conceptions of feminism, is the underlying force in this collection. Eight critical essays grounded in feminist analysis explore the different issues that arise in these artists' visual representations, including social space, family life, child care, work, food, romance, sexuality, advertising, and consumer culture. They are feminist critics looking at feminist art, an act Diane Neumaier argues happens all too rarely as feminist critics have in the past busied themselves with critiquing dominant culture. Together these artworks and essays explore the dynamics of visual images and ideology, including expressions and interpretations of autobiographical photographic projects, self-representation of women's bodies, conflicting identities, and the relationship between photographer and photographed.
Contents:
Foreword Anne Wilkes Tucker
(1) Gendering Space
Artworks:
"Recent Public Works" Barbara Kruger
from African American Spirit Marilyn Nance
from WWII American and Soviet Women Pilots Anne Noggle
from Making the Most of Your Backyard: The Story Behind an Ideal Beauty Kaucyila Brooke
Voyeurism and Its Discontents Sherry Millner
Is This How I Look? Carol Simon Rosenblatt
Essay:
"Undertones: Ten Cultural Landscapes" Lucy R. Lippard
Artworks:
from between the birthdays Linda Brooks
from The Family Tapes Gail S. Rebhan
from Live and Let Die Nancy Barton
from Reframing the Past Clarissa Sligh
from Archiving Abuse Susan Meiselas
from It's All There in Black and White S.A. Bachman
Essay:
"Women's Stories/Women's Photobiographies" Deborah Willis
(3) Identity Formations
Artworks:
from Valley Girls: The Construction of Feminine Identity in Consumer Culture Sarah Hart
from A Legacy of Restraint Leigh Kane
from Decide Who You Are Adrian Piper
Three Works Lorna Simpson
Hard Glance: Asian American Image and Identity Diane Tani
Essay:
"As In Her Vision: Native American Women Photographers" Theresa Harlan
(4) Postcolonial Legacies
Artworks:
from Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful Martha Rosler
Type/Cast: (not the typical) portrait of a revolutionary Esther Parada
deColonization Yong Soon Min
from Native Programming Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
Two Installations Pat Ward Williams
Essay:
"ODELLA/Carlota" Julia Ballerini
(5) Rationalizing and Realizing the Body
Artworks:
Untitled Pinhole Photographs Martha Casanave
from Claiming the Gaze Linn Underhill
from The Global Face of AIDS: Photographs of Women Ann Meredith
from Untitled Heads Jin Lee
from How To Read Character Carla Williams
from X-Rayed (Altered) Dorit Cypis
Essay:
"A Meditation on Bearing/Baring the Body" Moira Roth
Artworks:
from The DeSublimation of Romance Connie Hatch
Untitled from Kitchen Table Series Carrie Mae Weems
from Tremors from the Faultline Tamarra Kaida
Untitled Cindy Sherman
from Dear Shirley Hinda Schuman
from The Other Side Nan Goldin
Essay:
"This Is Not a Fairy Tale: A Middle-aged Female Pervert (White) in the Era of Multiculturalism" Catherine Lord
(7) Crossing Over: Reimagining and Reimaging
Artworks:
from Latina Lesbians Linda Aguilar
Justice on TV, from A Guide to the Wasteland Margaret Stratton
from Earthman Series Cam Little Turtle
from Being and Having Catherine Opie
from Aboutface Coreen Simpson
Essay:
"Turning the Tables: Three Asian American Artists" Valerie Soe
(8) Rerepresenting Representation
Artworks:
Ancient History/Recent History Ann Fessler
from Contemplation of the Journey Home Betty Lee
The Management of Desire Deborah Bright
from Metropolitan Tits Diane Neumaier
from Theatres of Madness Susan Jahoda
from Corpus Mary Kelly
Essay:
"Representing Women: The Politics of Self-Representation" Abigail Solomon-Godeau